Kuiper belt

Observations made by the Voyagers and Pioneers of the objects in the Kuiper Belt do not support a planet of any size out there.

So there might be more of them in the Kuiper Belt (where comets come from) as compared with the inner solar system near the sun.

Pluto, Eris and the many other Kuiper Belt objects are far too different to be lumped in with the eight official planets, he said.

Quaoar lies in the Kuiper Belt, a swarm of objects made of ice and rock that orbit the sun beyond Neptune.

The first Kuiper Belt object was spotted in 1992, but it was not until the middle of the last decade that the belt got its biggest notches.

In other words, there was once enough solid material to have formed another planet the size of Uranus or Neptune in the Kuiper Belt.

Yet, it may not be considered as a new planet of our solar system but is a Kuiper Belt object.

A telescopic sky survey has turned up 14 new objects in and around the Kuiper Belt, the icy debris field out past Neptune.

Almost all our spacecraft subsystems include spare equipment to increase reliability on the long flight to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

A telescopic sky survey finds 14 previously unknown objects in and around the Kuiper Belt.

Normal comets fall into the inner regions of the solar system from icy reservoirs in the distant Kuiper belt and Oort cloud.

The Kuiper belt is a remnant of the outer part of the original accretion disk, where the material was too sparse to form another planet.

Kuiper Belt in addition to discrete disk ecliptic, the sun circle and still hypothetical Oort cloud.

The researchers used a supercomputer at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center to simulate 75, 000 particles bumping around the Kuiper belt.

So far there are just five confirmed dwarf planets, including the most famous Kuiper Belt object, Pluto.

Either way, it's the first time astronomers have observed this kind of surface detail on an object in the Kuiper Belt.

Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet dwelling in the Kuiper belt.

Also, astronomers don't have a very clear picture of what the Kuiper belt contains, so the model's input parameters could be off.

Dwarf planets Pluto and Eris are trans-Neptunian objects that orbit in the Kuiper belt of objects past Neptune.

Remember that little planetary object I spotted beyond the Kuiper Belt?

WHY ARE ASTRONOMERS so interested in studying Pluto- Charon and the Kuiper Belt?

The frosty Kuiper belt lies roughly 30 to 55 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun.

There's something called the Kuiper belt, which -- some people think Pluto's not a planet, that's where Pluto is, its in the Kuiper belt.

Hubble observations of nearby stars show that a number of them have Kuiper Belt-like disks of icy debris encircling them.

They used the Herschel space telescope to examine Comet Hartley 2, which originated in the Kuiper Belt.

Kuiper belt comet has water that matches ours, study says.

it will briefly be springtime in the Kuiper Belt out beyond Neptune.

The smallest Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) seen previously in reflected light is roughly 30 miles across, or 50 times larger.

It's just another Kuiper Belt object.