SOLAR SYSTEM

UNIVERSE

COMETS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A doughnut-shaped region of comets that extends from beyond Neptune’s orbit to about 100 times Earth’s distance from the sun.
A
Kuiper Belt
B
Asteroid Belt
C
Oort Cloud
D
Milky Way
Explanation: 

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: -The Kuiper belt (/ˈkaɪpər/) is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune at 30 astronomical units (AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Kuiper Belt is a disk-shaped region past the orbit of Neptune, roughly 4, 400, 000, 000 to 14, 900, 000, 000 km (30 to 100 AU) from the Sun, that consists mainly of small bodies which are the remnants from the Solar System’s formation.

Detailed explanation-4: -Asteroids, comets and Kuiper belt are bodies smaller than planets that orbit the sun. Asteroids are composed of metals and rock, whereas comets also contain ice and dust. The Kuiper belt is a collection of such bodies that orbits at the edge of the solar system.

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