Kuiper Belt John Meade, DON'T TOUCH ME!!!
The Kuiper Belt is much like the Asteroid Belt, but the Kuiper Belt is much farther away from the sun. In the Kuiper Belt there are comets or frozen balls of ice; in the Asteroid Belt there are asteroids. The Kuiper Belt is located on the outer edge of our Solar System. The man who discovered The Kuiper Belt name is Gerard Kuiper, who suggested that some comet-like debris from the formation of the solar system should also be just beyond Neptune.
In 2006 Pluto and its moons were known as KBO's (Kuiper Belt Objets) because of how far away they are away from the sun and what their made of. There are probably a lot more of KOB's as big or bigger the Pluto that we haven't found yet. The first KBO was dicovered in 1992; It was called "1992 QB1".
There are differen't kinds of KBO's in our solar system some of them have differen't orbits like Pluto's. They are called "plutinos" (mini-Pluto's). The Kuiper Belt is huge, it goes around our whole Solar System.The Kuiper Belt is made of big frozen rocks, matter, and ice; there for the Kuiper Belt is extremly cold. The Kuiper Belt has a very big orbit around the Solar System in which it carries large amounts of rocks and ice.
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Hamilton, Calvin. "The Kuiper Belt." solarveiws. 1997-2001. 16 Oct 2007 <http://www.solarviews.com>
Comments (12)
tyler martin said
at 8:40 am on Oct 17, 2007
john nice job on doing this this informaition is really acurate
Breanna said
at 8:50 am on Oct 17, 2007
Looks great! Love the picture. Maybe add a movie??
brandon said
at 8:50 am on Oct 17, 2007
great job it is really put together well.
Sydnie said
at 9:01 am on Oct 17, 2007
Looks good! but i think it needs a movie.
maryah magee said
at 9:02 am on Oct 17, 2007
hey john!
so.. hm.. maybe a little color!, and ya a movie if one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eli Werth said
at 1:12 pm on Oct 17, 2007
nice 08935 a litle more information (&&&^ eli out!
Mr Coyle said
at 8:29 pm on Oct 17, 2007
Great job, nice citations, hard topic to explore. You did well!
Kaitlin F. said
at 9:37 pm on Oct 17, 2007
i think maybe some more pictures. other than that, A+ amigo, bien.
Senor Coyle said
at 11:25 pm on Oct 22, 2007
Why is the Kuiper Belt so cold?
mike haskins said
at 1:07 pm on Oct 27, 2007
johnny u need more color
Anna Compere said
at 10:53 pm on Oct 27, 2007
nice page... what's the paranoia about tho?
Morgan Lamson said
at 8:04 am on Oct 29, 2007
Nice Job! It looks really good! You did a great job with putting plenty of information on it. I think that maybe you should have added a little bit more color and maybe a video, to make people much more attracted to it! When people have movies more people are apt to look at it. With the information you have on here i think a 6th-8th grader could get started on a project about the Kuiper Belt. This page is also good because you didn't just copy and paste everything you wrote in your own information, and that makes it much better. It was also good because the project was handed in on time! I think that you put quite a bit of effort into this project but i think that if you had a little bit more info, color, and maybe a video you qould have many more people interested in it! Nice Job!!
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