How far away is the kuiper belt from earth?
Somewhere upwards of about 30AU from the Sun. It's important to note that the "Kuiper Belt" is a THEORETICAL area; because it is so far away (and the objects suspected to exist there are so small) very few "Kuiper Belt Objects" have actually been identified. We'll actually have to go out there and look for them.
This is similar to the "Oort Cloud"; we've never detected an object in the Oort Cloud. We know that there has to be some sort of region, quite distant from the Sun, that acts as a reservoir for comets, because no comet could survive even 100 million years of close approaches to the Sun. And since the Sun is 4.5 billion years old AND we keep detecting new comets, they clearly are coming from SOMEWHERE.
What are the two dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt?
The two that have been identified and named are Eris and Sedna, although Pluto arguably belongs in the "Kuiper belt" category as well. However, there are certainly hundreds, more likely millions of similar objects that are still just a little too far away to be detected by our terrestrial telescopes. Edit: I think the correct answer is : Haumea and Makemake. Also I would definitely say Pluto is in the Kuiper Belt. So that's three…
Where can you find the kuiper belt?
The Kuiper belt is far out beyond the orbit of Neptune, our solar systems farthest Major Planet and are between 30 and 55 AU from the sun. Pluto is sometimes referred to a Kuiper belt object, as are some of the other minor planets in this region of space. The Kuiper belt is a bit like the asteroid belt, in that the objects are in orbit around the sun, but its much larger and the…
What objects are found in the Kuiper Belt?
The Kuiper Belt is a region beyond Neptune in which an assortment of the solar system's refuse from planet-making orbits the sun. This includes ice, dust, and gas, along with much larger objects like asteroids and comets. The Kuiper Belt is believed to be the the source of many short-period comets, which are comets that quickly orbit the sun. One important element of the Kuiper Belt is that it also contains much larger objects like…
Will we discover more new planets in the Solar System in Future?
In our Solar System, highly unlikely. The only "possible" place a planet could lurk is beyond the Kuiper Belt. It has been hypothesised, but so far nothing has been seen. This does not discount that there "may" be another planet out there, it just hasn't been observed. Computer simulations propose that an Earth sized planet "could" exist beyond the Kuiper belt as it would explain the Kuiper cliff.