The Kuiper Belt is a disk-shaped region past the orbit of Neptune roughly 30 to 100 AU from the Sun containing many small icy bodies. It is now considered to be the source of the short-period comets.
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The Newsletter is dedicated to the dissemination of research relevant to the Kuiper belt. The goal is to provide researchers with easy and rapid access to current observational and theoretical studies of the Kuiper belt, directly related objects, and other areas of research.
Recent and past issues of the Distant EKOs Newsletter, a review of the science and current events surrounding Kuiper Belt Objects
European Southern Observatory images of 2001 KX76
Size comparison of 2001 KX76 and other known objects. From NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Guide to KBOs and recent research by Dr. David Jewitt of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
Primer on objects in the outer solar system from The Nine Planets multimedia tour of the solar system.
Lists currently known transneptunian objects, also known as Kuiper Belt Objects. Updated daily.
On Monday, February 4, on what would have been the 96th birthday of Pluto's discoverer, Clyde W. Tombaugh, NASA's New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission team announced the dedication of its Science Operations Center in his honor.
The Hubble Space Telescope is hot on the trail of a puzzling new class of solar system object that might be called a Pluto "mini-me."
This page lists acronyms and definitions of terms used in Kuiper belt research.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is hot on the trail of an intriguing new class of solar system objects -- dim and fleeting objects that travel in pairs in the frigid, mysterious outer realm of the solar system called the Kuiper Belt.
(April 18, 2002)
The Hubble Space Telescope is hot on the trail of a puzzling new class of solar system object that might be called a Pluto "mini-me."
On Monday, February 4, on what would have been the 96th birthday of Pluto's discoverer, Clyde W. Tombaugh, NASA's New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission team announced the dedication of its Science Operations Center in his honor.
European Southern Observatory images of 2001 KX76
Lists currently known transneptunian objects, also known as Kuiper Belt Objects. Updated daily.
Size comparison of 2001 KX76 and other known objects. From NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Guide to KBOs and recent research by Dr. David Jewitt of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
The Newsletter is dedicated to the dissemination of research relevant to the Kuiper belt. The goal is to provide researchers with easy and rapid access to current observational and theoretical studies of the Kuiper belt, directly related objects, and other areas of research.
Primer on objects in the outer solar system from The Nine Planets multimedia tour of the solar system.
This page lists acronyms and definitions of terms used in Kuiper belt research.
Recent and past issues of the Distant EKOs Newsletter, a review of the science and current events surrounding Kuiper Belt Objects
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is hot on the trail of an intriguing new class of solar system objects -- dim and fleeting objects that travel in pairs in the frigid, mysterious outer realm of the solar system called the Kuiper Belt.
(April 18, 2002)
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