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First Rotation Period of a Kuiper Belt Object Measured...
According to current ideas, the short period comets observed in the inner solar system come from the Kuiper Belt and their kilometre-size "dirty snowball" nuclei are simply small KBO's.
First Rotation Period of a Kuiper Belt Object Measured [1]
The Kuiper belt (pronounced /ˈkaɪpɚ/, to rhyme with "viper"), sometimes called the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, is a region of the Solar System beyond the planets extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU)
FIGURE 1. Light curves for Kuiper-belt objects (filled symbols) and faint field stars (open symbols).
Very little is known about the physical properties of Kuiper-belt objects1, due to their relatively small size and large distance from the Earth.
K.B.O stands for Kuiper Belt Objects. Named after the man who originally theorized that a field of smaller orbiting objects existed outside of Neptune, and his theory has since been proven correct.
Until 1993, the answer would have been, "No." But that year the first Kuiper Belt Objects, or KBO's, were discovered.
Kuiper belt n. A disk-shaped region in the outer solar system lying beyond the orbit of Neptune and extending to a distance of about 50 astronomical ... The Kuiper belt (pronounced IPA: /ˈkaɪpɚ/, ...
The New Horizons Mission to Pluto-Charon has two main objectives: the exploration of the binary planet Pluto-Charon and the recently discovered Kuiper Belt within which Pluto-Charon reside. The ...
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