Top 5 Kuiper Belt Facts You Should Know!

Top 5 Kuiper Belt Facts You Should Know!
1) The Kuiper Belt is a doughnut-shaped ring of ice objects surrounding the Sun that extends slightly beyond Neptune's orbit.
2) Short-period comets, which orbit the Sun in fewer than 200 years, form in the Kuiper Belt.
3) The Kuiper Belt could include hundreds of thousands of frozen bodies larger than 100 km in size, as well as trillions of comets.
4) Several dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt have moons.
5) NASA reports that astronomers are looking for a planet that could explain the unusual orbits of multiple Kuiper Belt objects known as Planet 9.

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