Kuiper Belt

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Apr 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003eaa..booke2175l&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2175. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar System, Asteroids

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The trans-Neptunian solar system is now known to contain a vast populationof icy bodies called the Kuiper Belt, first discovered by David Jewitt and JaneLuu in August of 1992. The discovery confirmed that the region immediatelybeyond the planets is not merely empty space but is instead richly populatedwith a vast reservoir of fossil remnants from the original solar nebula. Theenormous scientific p...

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