Region
Kuiper Belt
TypeRegion
Location30-50 AU
About Kuiper Belt
A doughnut of icy worlds beyond Neptune, home to Pluto and its neighbors, with an estimated 100,000 objects wider than 100 km. It is the nursery of short-period comets and preserves the coldest, most untouched relics of planet formation.
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