KUIPER BELT AND OORT CLOUD

BASIC STATISTICS

• Made of icey bodies
• Range from 5,000-10,000 AU
• Found in the outer solar system
• Kuiper belt goes around neptune's orbit

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KUIPER BELT

Elliptical plane in outer space.

OORT CLOUD

Shell that surrounds the entire solar system.

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An astronomer named Gerard Kuiper predicted the existence of a belt of icey objects.

The Kuiper belt is 2.5-4.5 billion miles away.
The Oort Cloud is 50,000 AU.

There are over 70,000 objects in the Kuiper Belt.

The objects in the Kuiper Belt got their matter from the remains of the creation of the galaxy.

FUN FACTS

• The oort cloud is where most of the solar systems comets are.
• Pluto was the 1st true kuiper belt object to be seen.

BIBLOGRAPHY

• http://www.space.com/16144-kuiper-belt-objects.html
• http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=KBOs&Display=Overvie...
• http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=KBOs