SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -The Kuiper Belt is a doughnut-shaped ring of icy objects around the Sun, extending just beyond the orbit of Neptune from about 30 to 55 AU.

Detailed explanation-2: -Unlike the orbits of the planets and the Kuiper Belt, which lie mostly in the same flat disk around the Sun, the Oort Cloud is believed to be a giant spherical shell surrounding the rest of the solar system.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Kuiper belt is home to most of the objects that astronomers generally accept as dwarf planets: Orcus, Pluto, Haumea, Quaoar, and Makemake. Some of the Solar System’s moons, such as Neptune’s Triton and Saturn’s Phoebe, may have originated in the region.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Kuiper belt got its name from Gerard Kuiper. Although Gerard Kuiper did not discover the Kuiper belt, he postulated that it existed. He believed that there was a belt-like region of space responsible for the appearance of short-period comets and published his theories in the 1950s.

Detailed explanation-5: -How many planets are in the Kuiper Belt? Due to Neptune’s gravitational influence, there are no planets in the Kuiper Belt. However, the belt contains four of the five officially recognized dwarf planets: Pluto, Eris, Makemake, and Haumea.

Detailed explanation-6: -1951: He proposed the existence of what is now called the Kuiper Belt, a disk-shaped region of icy objects outside the orbit of Neptune, a region that produces many comets. 1956: He proved that Mars’ polar icecaps are composed of frozen water and not of carbon dioxide as they had been previously assumed.