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Kuiper Belt
What is Kuiper Belt? At this page you can also find menu-box with links.
 
Kuiper Belt Objects
Views and explanation.
 
The Kuiper Belt and The Oort Cloud
History of research and properties of the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud.
 
First Rotation Period of a Kuiper Belt Object Measured
Press release by European Southern Observatory.
 
The Astonishing Redness of Kuiper-Belt Objects
Article abstract: The recently reported extreme redness of a class of Kuiper-belt objects could be yet another indirect indication of extraterrestrial microbiology in the outer solar system.
 
Kuiper Belt Movie
Kuiper Belt description; images and a MPEG movie with comments.
 
Distant EKOs. The Kuiper Belt Electronic Newsletter
Online periodical dedicated to Kuiper belt research.
 
Trans-Neptunian Objects
A page by Wm. Robert Johnston.
 
Planetary scientists find planetoid in Kuiper Belt; could be biggest yet discovered
Press release by California Institute of Technology.
 
Current Science Highlights: Kuiper Belt Object Survey
Kuiper Belt: the Final (Solar) Frontier. Current Science at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory.
 
HubbleSite - News Releases about Kuiper Belt objects
Hubble Space Telescope news releases related to Kuiper Belt objects including images made by HST.
 
Solar System Kuiper Belt mystery objects
Kuiper Belt information by Space Today Online.
 
New Horizons Web Site
Website at Johns Hopkins University for the first mission to the last planet - the initial reconnaissance of Pluto-Charon and the Kuiper Belt.
 
The 1000 km Scale KBOs
A web page by David Jewitt of the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii.
 
Kuiper Belt -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
An article from Eric W. Weisstein's online encyclopedia of astronomy.
 
Largest Kuiper Belt objects
The list of all known Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) with diameters that exceed or may exceed 1,000 km. Provided by the Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight by David Darling.
 
Kuiper belt
Information on Kuiper belt by Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
 
Second moon spotted circling cigar-shaped world - a New Scientist article
Astronomers have spotted a second moon around a massive, cigar-shaped world at the fringes of the solar system. The discovery suggests multiple moons orbit many large, distant objects – but their unusual orbits raise questions about just how they could have formed.
 
Lessons from an Odd Kuiper Belt Object - Skytonight article
The strangest Kuiper Belt object of all might just be the key to understanding how the largest of these distant ice-rock bodies acquire their moons.
 
Deep Ecliptic Survey
Since 1992, when David Jewitt and Jane Luu of the University of Hawaii discovered the first Kuiper Belt Object (KBO), astronomers have been working to explore the vast and intriguing region beyond Neptune known as the Kuiper Belt. Tens of thousands of these icy KBOs await discovery as they slowly orbit the Sun.
 
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