🌌 Very Far Away
It is much farther from the Sun than any of the main planets
Sunlight is very weak out there
🚀 Fun Fact
It can take hundreds of years for objects in the Kuiper Belt to orbit the Sun!
🌌 Very Far Away
It is much farther from the Sun than any of the main planets
Sunlight is very weak out there
🚀 Fun Fact
It can take hundreds of years for objects in the Kuiper Belt to orbit the Sun!
KUIPER BELT
Kuiper Belt Basics
The Kuiper Belt is a region of space beyond Neptune
It is filled with icy objects and dwarf planets
It starts about 30 times farther from the Sun than Earth
🧊 Icy Objects
Objects in the Kuiper Belt are made of ice and rock
Many are leftovers from the early solar system
🌍 Dwarf Planets
The Kuiper Belt is home to dwarf planets like Pluto
Other dwarf planets include Haumea and Makemake
🌀 Shaped Like a Disk
The Kuiper Belt is shaped like a wide, flat ring around the Sun
🌠 Source of Comets
Many short-period comets come from the Kuiper Belt