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Kuiper Belt

Also known as Edgeworth–Kuiper Belt, the Kuiper Belt

area of the Solar System beyond the planetary orbits comprising small bodies

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The Kuiper Belt is a region of the solar system beyond the planets that contains many small, icy bodies. It matters because studying these ancient remnants helps scientists understand how our solar system formed and evolved.

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Commons category: Kuiper belt objects

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Known objects in the Kuiper belt beyond the orbit of Neptune. (Scale in AU. Distances but not sizes are to scale; the yellow disk is about the size of Mars's orbit. Epoch as of January 2015.) Sun

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