The Kuiper belt is a disc of objects made of ice and rock that orbit our sun just past the orbit of Neptune. There are many objects in the belt believed to be short-period comets. However, there are at least three dwarf planets with more likely to be discovered....
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Properties of Like-Planet 2003EL61, As Unknown Discovered object in Kuiper Belt of our Solar SystemNIKOURAVAN, BIJAN
根据第一段第二句“Until 2006 it was thought to be the ninth planet in the solar system. (直到2006年,它被认为是太阳系的第九个行星。)”第三段第一句“According to this idea, Pluto is not a planet, but is just another Kuiper Belt object.(根据这个观点,冥王星不是行星,只是柯伊伯带的另一...
No One Has Found Planet X In The Kuiper Belt There have been no sightings of Nibiru in the Kuiper Belt, which is where it is supposed to be. If Nibiru were out there, someone would have found it by now. The Absence Of A Second Sun ...
Why aren't the Kuiper belt objects planet-size?Dwarf Planets:The region of the Kuiper belt has been found to contain at least 3 dwarf planets, with other discoveries possible. None of these objects, Pluto included, more than a fraction of the size of the Moon, but as they are roughly ...
Like the other dwarf planets, Makemake is located in the Kuiper belt. Diameter: 1,430 km (888 mil) Distance from Sun: 45.8 AU Day: 22.5 hours Orbit: 305 Earth years Natural Satellites: 1 provisional moon Eris Eris is the ninth-largest known object orbiting the Sun, the furthest from the...
There are three other known dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt: Eris, Makemake and Haumea, while recent ground-based observations indicated that Main Belt asteroid Hygiea may also be a dwarf planet (Vernazza et al. 2020). This article describes the geology of Ceres and Pluto but not the other...
Ceres, in orbit around the Sun between Mars and Jupiter, was upgraded from asteroid to dwarf planet status. Clearing the neighbourhood means that it does not cross other planets or asteroids in its wake, which, as Pluto is in the area known as thekuiper beltand crosses many paths, it ...
Tenth Planet - The Kuiper Belt