Why Is The The Kuiper Belt Important And What We Found There?
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Kuiper is an outer region of the Solar System that extends from the orbit of the planet Neptune, called Edgeworth , about 30 astronomical units from the Sun, up to 50 astronomical units from the Sun; its overall shape is somewhat reminiscent of a donut. It takes its name from the astronomers Gerard Kuiper and Kenneth Edgeworth, who in a 1951 article hypothesized the presence of objects beyond the orbit of Neptune, later known as trans-Neptunian objects (TNO).
Unlike the main belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, essentially composed of rocky bodies, the Kuiper belt is composed of small icy bodies (mainly water ice, ammonia, and methane), whose orbits are arranged on the plane of the ecliptic, which is the same plane on which the orbits of the planets also lie.
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00:00 Intro
4:22 Kuiper Belt Objects
5:43 The largest body in the Kuiper belt
9:29 Arrokoth
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