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There's much more to our solar system than that, though, including a region of the outer solar system called the Kuiper belt. Sitting beyond the orbit of Neptune, the Kuiper (pronounced Ky-per) belt is home to millions (or billions, it's unclear) of icy objects that orbit our sun just like the planets and asteroids we know about.
Kuiper belt, flat ring of icy small bodies that revolve around the Sun beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune. It comprises hundreds of millions of objects whose orbits lie close to the plane of the solar system. The Kuiper belt is thought to be the source of most of the observed short-period comets.
Most of what we know about the Kuiper Belt comes from ground-based telescopes and the Hubble Space Telescope. Only one spacecraft has visited the Kuiper Belt. NASA’s New Horizons flew past Pluto in July 2015 – sending back the first clear, close-up images of the tiny world.
The Kuiper belt is a donut-shaped region beyond the orbit of Neptune that contains dwarf planets, comets, and other icy bodies. Collectively, these bodies are Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) or Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs).
On , we celebrate the 120th anniversary of the birth of Gerard Kuiper, the astronomer whose name the Kuiper Belt now bears. Ironically, Kuiper believed this region no longer existed — yet today it’s known as one of the most intriguing zones in the Solar System.