What is the biggest object in kuiper belt?

Answer 1

It is similar to the asteroid belt, although it is far larger -- 20 times as wide and 20-200 times as massive. Like the asteroid belt, it consists mainly of small bodies (remnants from the Solar System's formation). It is home to at least three dwarf planets - Pluto, Haumea and Makemake. But while the asteroid belt is composed primarily of rock and metal, the Kuiper belt objects are composed largely of frozen volatiles (dubbed "ices"), such as methane, ammonia and water.

Answer 2

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 minor planets and large asteroids. Pluto is one such minor planet, currently considered the largest body in the Kuiper Belt and by far the best-known.

Answer 3

The Kuiper Belt is a vast region of space beyond the orbit of Neptune, extending from about 30 AU to 50 AU (4.5 to 7.5 billion km) from the Sun. There are dwarf planets (Pluto-Charon, Haumea, Makemake) and many other icy bodies within the belt. Bodies in the belt (Kuiper Belt Objects, KBOs) are a small part of the classification TNOs - Trans-Neptunian Objects.

Answer 4

The biggest known object in the Kuiper Belt is Pluto, which is classified as a dwarf planet. It is the largest known member of the Kuiper Belt, with a diameter of about 1,473 miles (2,370 kilometers).

Answer 5

The problem with your question is that we don't really have a good idea of how large Kuiper Belt objects are. We can detect only a dozen or so of the largest and most obvious ones; but for each big one that we can see, how many smaller ones are out there, too small or too distant to be visible? In order to determine an average, we need to know about the small ones as well as the large ones.

We encounter the same problem with the hypothetical Oort Cloud. We have only ONE piece of evidence for the existence of the Oort Cloud; the comets have to be coming from SOMEWHERE, since comets get destroyed after some large number of passes by the Sun. And yet, after 4.5 billion years, there are still comets. That's the ONLY thing we know about the Oort Cloud.

Answer 6

The circumference of the Kuiper Belt is about 15 billion kilometers. I learned this in a university astromony class yesterday. To check it, you can go to wikipedia and find that the diameter of the belt (wikipedia calls it "the distance the belt stretches") is between 30-55 AU. AU is Astronomical Unit, which is the distance from the Earth to the Sun, which is 150,000,000 km. The circumference of a circle is pi (3.14...) X the diameter. 30 AU (4,500,000,000 km) X pi = jsut under 15 billion kilometers.

Answer 7

just about the same thing as the asteroid belt; they are almost the same thing except the kuiper belt is much much larger and out around/beyond the orbit of saturn. it contains at least 3 dwarf planets, some moons, and ice chunks (mostly those items listed)

Answer 8

We can't yet be certain. We've defined it as beginning a little outside the orbit of Neptune, so Pluto is included in that category. It might extend another 200 AU or perhaps as much as 1,000 AU out. We'll need much more powerful telescopes and robotic probes to determine what's out there, and where "out there" stops. IF it stops.

Answer 9

The Kuiper belt [See Link] is a region of the Solar System beyond the planets extending from the orbit of Neptune at around 30 AU to approximately 55 AU from the Sun. It is home to at least three dwarf planets -- Pluto, Haumea and Makemake. While the asteroid belt is composed primarily of rock and metal, the Kuiper belt objects are composed largely of frozen volatiles ("ices"), such as methane, ammonia and water. 1 AU = ~ 150,000,000 kilometers or 93 Million miles 25 AU = ~ 3,750,000,000 kilometers or 2,325,000,000 miles

Answer 10

Objects within the Kuiper Belt are not very well understood or verified.

Initial estimates would put Makemake as slightly larger than Haumea but it's a close call and this may well change as observations increase.