How to pronounce “kuiper” in English

You talked about the Kuiper belt, which is the near region, then there's also the Oort cloud, which is the farther region.

And so is the Kuiper Belt.

So that's the Kuiper belt.

And it's still going through the Kuiper Belt so it is 25 times wider than the asteroid belt.

These are comets that were in the Kuiper belt and they were perturbed at some various point in time.

But once you get to the edge of the Kuiper Belt, it sort of becomes no man's land.

We're going to try and get a Kuiper belt object.

So that tells you that either it was comets from the Kuiper belt and something else mixing, or something happened to the water

So this is very strong evidence that at least Kuiper belt objects are not the primary source of Earth's water.

DENNIS E. TAYLOR: Then you got the Kuiper belt, which is outside of that.

So there's probably almost certainly some objects in what we call the Kuiper Belt, where Pluto lives, which are probably asteroidal in origin,

So I'm really excited sitting next object it's going to in the Kuiper Belt.

It's just one of many, many Kuiper belt objects.

We know its orbit, that it comes from the Kuiper Belt.

But you know, I'll be back on the market after we finish exploring the Kuiper Belt.

But if you have any questions about planetary exploration, certainly astrobiology or Pluto or the Kuiper Belt or New

And the comets exist in two main areas, the Kuiper belt in the Oort cloud.

And that will include new near-Earth asteroids, distant Kuiper belt objects out near Pluto, the flickering of stars-- which are almost

We know we went to Pluto with the New Horizons mission recently, and it's still going through the Kuiper belt.

So doing the math on the numbers from your book, I got that light leaves the sun, it gets to the near edge of the Kuiper belt in four hours.

And so yeah, the Voyager missions, which set off here in the 1970s, they are now in interstellar space, but that just means they are past the Kuiper Belt

And it's the scientific story of why it was important to do and how it was transformed by the discovery of the Kuiper

And I think there'll be, now, other missions to small planets in the Kuiper Belt because we want to sample the diversity of this new population.