Objects beyond Neptune Brittany Ybarra, destin Horton, Nathan seay, hailey GRANDI

# 2 Which of the following separates the outer from the inner planets? The asteroid belt

# 5 Which of the following celestial bodies do scientists not consider a major planet? Pluto

# 16 Which of the following is not true of Pluto? Its not a planet

The Kuiper belt The Kuiper Belt is an area of the outer solar system that is estimated to stretch across 20 astronomical units (AU) of space. It contains small solar system bodies made mostly of ices. The ices are frozen volatiles (gases) such as methane, ammonia, nitrogen and water. It also is home to the known dwarf planets Pluto, Haumea and Makemake. The Kuiper-Edgeworth Belt is named for the astronomers Gerard Kuiper, who theorized about a disk of material in the outer reaches of the solar system

exoplanets Exoplanets are planets outside of the solar system. They are also referred to as extrasolar planets. Starting in 1992 with the first discovery, astronomers have located about 837 such planets in 660 planetary systems around the Milky Way galaxy. Researchers believe they will find many more planets — a 2012 study estimated that each star of the 100 billion or so in the Milky Way galaxy hosts on average at least 1.6 planets.

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