The icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt are called "Kuiper Belt Objects" (I know, creative), or KBOs for short. Pluto is the best-known KBO, and one of the reasons it was demoted from being a planet was that thousands of other KBOs have been discovered orbiting in the same region. Only P...
What are three facts about the Kuiper Belt? The Kuiper Belt is 30 - 55 AU from the sun. The space objects in the Kuiper Belt are all much smaller than Earth's moon. The objects in the Kuiper Belt are composed of ammonia, methane and ice. ...
Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) are a recently-discovered set of solar system bodies which lie at about the orbit of Pluto (40 AU) out to about 100 astronomical units (AU). There are estimated to be about 100,000 KBOs with a diameter greater than 100 km. KBOs are postulated to be composed...
The Kuiper belt, sometimes called the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, is a region of the Solar System beyond the planets extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30
Kid-FriendlyKuiper Belt Just outside of Neptune's orbit is a ring of icy bodies. We call it the Kuiper Belt. This is where you'll find dwarf planet Pluto. It's the most famous of the objects floating in the Kuiper Belt, which are also called Kuiper Belt Objects, or KBOs. ...
The New Horizons team has proposed the name to the International Astronomical Union and Minor Planets Center, the international authority for naming Kuiper Belt objects. The Kuiper Belt is the vast "third zone" of the solar system beyond the inner terrestrial planets and the outer gas giant plane...
The origin of the Kuiper Belt high–inclination population I simulate the orbital evolution of the four major planets and a massive primordial planetesimal disk composed of 10 4 objects, which perturb the planets b... RS Gomes - 《Icarus》 被引量: 257发表: 2003年 Kuiper Belt Objects: Relics...
The Kuiper belt is a ring-shaped disk outside the solar system, which contains a lot of small objects. Inspired by this, the eKuiper logo is also composed of many short line segments. We’ve altered the direction of lines to keep them in a dynamic upward-flowing state, representing the...
This ring consists mainly of small bodies is 20 times larger than the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Kuiper Belt objects is also home to several hundred kilometers called « dwarf planets ». Among these there are dwarf planets, Eris (≈2600 km), Pluto (≈2300 km), Makemake...
The unusual spectral properties of 2003 EL61, its brightest satellite, and the fragments are examined. Analysis suggests that the surfaces of all these objects can be composed of nearly pure water ice, suggesting that their volatile organic inventory has been lost. The discovery of crystalline ...