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
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