To the Kuiper Belt and Beyond

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What is the Kuiper Belt?

A region beyond Neptune and about 50 astronomical units from the sun

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What does the Kuiper Belt contain?

about 100,000 icy bodies, and it is where Pluto hangs out

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What do astronomers believe about the Kuiper Belt?

That it contains some remains from the earliest development of the solar system, and that it’s the source of short period comets

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Beyond the Kuiper belt, on the edges of the solar system is:

The Oort Cloud which is an extended shell of icy objects that most likely produces long period comets