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- A Deep Ecliptic Survey for Kuiper Belt Objects - A description of the Deep Ecliptic Survey, a systematic search for Kuiper Belt Objects using large telescopes.
- Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission team dedicates Science Operations Center - On Monday, February 4, on what would have been the 96th birthday of Pluto's discoverer, Clyde W. Tombaugh, NASA's New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission team announced the dedication of its Science Operations Center in his honor.
- Distant EKOs: The Kuiper Belt Electronic Newsletter - Recent and past issues of the Distant EKOs Newsletter, a review of the science and current events surrounding Kuiper Belt Objects
- swri.edu: A Kuiper Belt Glossary - This page lists acronyms and definitions of terms used in Kuiper belt research.
- Distant EKOs - The Newsletter is dedicated to the dissemination of research relevant to the Kuiper belt. The goal is to provide researchers with easy and rapid access to current observational and theoretical studies of the Kuiper belt, directly related objects, and other areas of research.
- UniSci: Some Kuiper Belt Objects Turn Out To Be Binary Pairs - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is hot on the trail of an intriguing new class of solar system objects -- dim and fleeting objects that travel in pairs in the frigid, mysterious outer realm of the solar system called the Kuiper Belt.
- Kuiper-Gürtel - Erläuterungen zur Entdeckung und Entstehung von Kuiper-Belt-Objects (KBO's).
- The Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud - Primer on objects in the outer solar system from The Nine Planets multimedia tour of the solar system.
- Scientific American: Journey to the Farthest Planet - Scientists are finally preparing to send a spacecraft to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, the last unexplored region of our planetary system. By S. Alan Stern
- NASA Goddard Joins Team to Explore the Solar System's Final Frontier - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has joined a team led by the Southwest Research Institute to begin design studies for what could be the first spacecraft to visit PLuto and the Kuiper Belt.
Wikipedia Articles
- Kuiper belt - The Kuiper belt (pronounced , 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)One AU, or "astronomical unit", is the average distance between the Earth and the Sun, or roughly ...
- Classical Kuiper belt object - In astronomy a cubewano (pronounced ) is a Kuiper belt object that orbits beyond Neptune and is not controlled by an orbital resonance with the giant planet. Cubewanos have semi-major axes in the 40-50 AU range and, unlike Pluto, do not cross Neptune’s orbit.
- Pluto Kuiper Express - The Pluto Kuiper Express mission was a space mission designed to fly by the Pluto-Charon system and at least one large object in the Kuiper belt beyond Pluto's orbit. Originally designated the Pluto Fast Flyby, it was scheduled to reach Pluto by 2012.
- Scattered disc - The scattered disc (or scattered disk) is a distant region of our Solar System, thinly populated by icy minor planets known as scattered disc objects (SDOs), a subset of the broader family of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). The innermost portion of the scattered disc overlaps with the Kuiper belt, but its outer limits extend much farther away from the Sun and farther above and below the ecliptic than the belt proper.
- (136120) 2003 LG7 - (136120) 2003 LG7, also written as 2003 LG7, is a trans-Neptunian object that resides in the Kuiper belt. It was discovered on June 1, 2003 by Marc W.