SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Kuiper belt is primarily characterizes comparatively small bodies and remnants from the Solar System, composed largely of frozen volatile matter, such as methane, ammonia, and water (ice). The belt is home to dwarf planets Pluto, Haumea, and Makemake.

Detailed explanation-2: -Overlapping the outer edge of the main part of the Kuiper Belt is a second region called the scattered disk, which continues outward to nearly 1, 000 AU, with some bodies on orbits that go even farther beyond.

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: -This distant region is probably populated with hundreds of thousands of icy bodies larger than 100 km (62 miles) across and an estimated trillion or more comets. Dwarf planet Pluto may be the best known of the larger objects in the Kuiper Belt.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Kuiper Belt is located just beyond the orbit of Neptune and is composed of icy objects such as comets, asteroids and dwarf planets.