The Kuiper Belt

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Science

 

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Mary P

 

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March 21, 2016

 

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University

 

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The Kuiper Belt is very important because of two specific things; the first being, Kuiper Belt Objects are remnants from the earliest phases of the solar system and are tens of millions of years old and secondly, that the Kuiper Belt is the source of short-period comets. The Kuiper Belt is named after Gerald Kuiper, an American scientist with a special interest in astronomy...
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He wrote a paper in 1951 that mentioned objects out beyond Pluto. He predicted that there must be a cloud of dust and debris out past the main area of the solar system, i.e. out past Pluto (Jewitt "The Kuiper Belt"). His hypothesis was reinforced in the 1980s by computer simulations. The simulations predicted that a belt of debris would naturally form around the edge of the solar system...
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