28 janv. 1519 - Kuiper Belt
Description:
Distance from Sun: 50 AU1. The Kuiper Belt could contain hundreds of thousands of icy bodies that range in size from small chunks of ice to world lets larger than 100 kilometers across.
2. Astronomers have tracked most short-period comets from their origins in the Kuiper Belt. These are comets with orbital periods of 200 years or less.
3. There could be more than a trillion comet nuclei in the main body of the Kuiper Belt.
The largest Kuiper Belt Objects are Pluto, Quaoar, Makemake, Haumea, Ixion, and Varuna. 4. These are often also referred to as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs).
5. The ices in the Kuiper Belt date back to the formation of the solar system. They contain clues to conditions in the early solar nebula.
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Date:
28 janv. 1519
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