Kuiper Belt Solar System Astronomy
Kuiper Belt Solar System Astronomy
Kuiper Belt
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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- European Southern Observatory images of 2001 KX76
- 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.
- NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has joined a team led by the Southwest Research Institute to begin design studies for what could be the first spacecraft to visit PLuto and the Kuiper Belt.
- An unmanned Pluto-Kuiper Belt probe study. New Horizons, if approved, would launch in 2006.
- Scientists are finally preparing to send a spacecraft to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, the last unexplored region of our planetary system. By S. Alan Stern
- Frequently Asked Questions About Quaoar
- 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 othe
- 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."
- The official home page of the Deep Ecliptic Survey, an initial reconaissance of the Kuiper Belt
- From the National Optical Astronomy Observatory Newsletter
- Basic information on the Kuiper Belt from ORRERY: the solar system in action.
- Astronomers have discovered the largest object in the solar system since Pluto was named the ninth planet in 1930.
- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has measured Quaoar and found it to be 1300 km wide.
- A description of the Deep Ecliptic Survey, a systematic search for Kuiper Belt Objects using large telescopes.
- Primer on objects in the outer solar system from The Nine Planets multimedia tour of the solar system.
- Size comparison of 2001 KX76 and other known objects. From NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day.
- Recent and past issues of the Distant EKOs Newsletter, a review of the science and current events surrounding Kuiper Belt Objects
- This page lists acronyms and definitions of terms used in Kuiper belt research.
- Guide to KBOs and recent research by Dr. David Jewitt of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
- 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.
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