KUIPER BELT INTRODUCTION kuiper belt is an area of ou r solar system t hat is e stim ated to stretch across 20 AU of space.it is contains s mall asteroid and some big asteroid size of Pluto.this things made mostl y of ice and other g ases such as ammonia,nitrogen ,m eth ane and water. the kuiper belt ext ends from rough ly the orb it of neptu ne at 30AU to 55AU from sun.the main objects o f th is belt covers much of this r egion . FAC TS ABOUT THE KUIPER BELT 1. there cou ld be more than a trillion comet nucl ei in the main body of the kuiper belt. 2.the largest kuiper belt family members are pluto, makemake , haumen, lxion, quaoar etc. 3.the ices in the kuiper be lt data back to the formation of sol ar system . There have been more than a thousand objects discovered in the Kuiper Belt, and it’s theorized that there are as many as 100,000 objects larger than 100 km in diameter. Given to their small size and extreme distance from Earth, the che...
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