What is the biggest object in kuiper belt?

Answer 1

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 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

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 4

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 5

The Kuiper (pronounced "KY-per") belt is a vast region beyond the orbit of Neptune (at about 30 AU) and reaching out to about 55 AU out from the Sun. Its constituents are icy bodies that are thought to be remnants of the solar system's formation. The Kuiper belt is somewhat similar to the asteroid belt (with its rocky, metallic chunks), but the objects are made mostly of ice and frozen gases. This area of the solar system is large and difficult to assess as the objects in it are so far away and are, in general, quite small.

There is some 20 to 200 times more mass in the Kuiper belt than in the asteroid belt. As the Kuiper belt is the group of trans-Neptunian objects out to the margin stated, Pluto spends most of its 248-year solar orbital time in the Kuiper belt. Additionally, though many (if not most) objects in this region are smaller and less massive objects than those found in the asteroid belt, some larger trans-Neptunian objects (like the dwarf planets) are out in this region of space. It is also the source of the Solar System's short-period comets.

A link can be found below that an investigator can follow for more information.

Answer 6

50 AU (astronomical unit) from the Sun.

AU is a unit of length equal to about 149,597,870.7 kilometres (92,955,807.3 mi) or approximately the mean Earth-Sun distance.

Answer 7

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.

Answer 8

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 9

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 10

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)