{"id":8517,"date":"2020-02-21T11:48:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T11:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homeworkminutes.com\/infographics\/?p=8517"},"modified":"2020-02-21T11:48:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T11:48:23","slug":"things-to-know-about-kuiper-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homeworkminutes.com\/infographics\/things-to-know-about-kuiper-belt\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to Know About Kuiper Belt"},"content":{"rendered":"

To begin with, this article, let us first know what Kuiper belt is. Beyond the gas-filled planet, Neptune lies a region filled with small icy bodies known as the Kuiper Belt. The belt is located beyond Neptune. This chilly region holds trillions of objects that are remnants of the formation of the solar system. The Dutch astronomer Jan Oort proposed that comets might come from far suburbs of the solar system. The reservoir later came to be known as Oort Cloud, named after the astronomer Jan Oort.<\/span><\/p>\n

How Does the Kuiper Belt Formation Take Place?<\/h2>\n

Much of the gas and rocks pulled together to form the planets and sun after the formation of a solar system. Objects that were at the edge of the solar system were far to avoid gravitational tugs of more massive planets like Jupiter. Therefore, they managed to stay at their place, slowly orbiting around the sun. Whereas the Oort Cloud contains the leftover remnants from the beginning of the solar system.<\/span><\/p>\n

List of Main Kuiper Belt Objects<\/h2>\n

Pluto is considered to be a first Kuiper belt object. Although scientists didn\u2019t recognize it as a KBO until further KBO\u2019s were discovered. When Jewitt and Luu discovered the Kuiper Belt, astronomers saw that the region behind Neptune was full of icy rocks. Sedna, a KBO, is about the three-fourth size of the Pluto that discovered in 2004.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sedna is very far from the sun and takes about 10,500 years to make a single orbit. Astronomers discovered Eris, which is slightly smaller than the Pluto in 2005. It orbits around the sun in every 580 years and travels almost 100 times farther from the sun than the earth does. Haumea and Makemake were dwarf planets discovered in the Kuiper Belt in 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n

Six of the biggest KBO\u2019s that have been discovered are:<\/span><\/p>\n