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The Kuiper Belt: Exploring the Icy Frontier Beyond Neptune's Orbit

The Kuiper Belt: Exploring the Icy Frontier Beyond Neptune’s Orbit

Jan Otte

You’ve probably heard about the icy chunks floating around beyond Mars. That’s the asteroid belt. However, there’s something far more intriguing lurking in the shadows of our solar system’s outer reaches. The Kuiper Belt is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune at 30 astronomical units (AU) to ...