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Kuiper Belt
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Kepler
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Terrestrial Planets
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Gas Giants
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Detailed explanation-1: -Definition. The Kuiper Belt is the region in the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune that contains icy bodies orbiting the Sun.
Detailed explanation-2: -Kuiper belt, also called Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, flat ring of icy small bodies that revolve around the Sun beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune. It was named for the Dutch American astronomer Gerard P.
Detailed explanation-3: -(But the Oort Cloud extends even farther) The Kuiper Belt shouldn’t be confused with the Oort Cloud, which is an even more distant, spherical region of icy, comet-like bodies that surrounds the solar system, including the Kuiper Belt.
Detailed explanation-4: -The short-period comets are thought to originate in the Kuiper Belt, an area outside Neptune’s orbit (from about 30 to 50 AU) that has many icy comet-like objects.