UNIVERSE
METEORITES
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Outside of Neptune’s orbit
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Between Mars and Jupiter
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Outside of Venus’s orbit
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Outside of Uranus’s orbit
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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 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-3: -Neptune is located outside of the asteroid belt. It is the eighth planet from the Sun and is about 2.795 billion miles from it.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Kuiper belt stretches beyond the orbit of Neptune to an orbital distance of about 50 astronomical units from the Sun. The known objects in the Kuiper belt are icy bodies of up to about the size of Pluto, one of the biggest objects in the Kuiper belt.
Detailed explanation-5: -It is similar to the main asteroid belt, found between Mars and Jupiter, in that its objects are comprised of material leftover from the formation of the solar system around 4.6 billion years ago, according to NASA (opens in new tab).