It comprises hundreds of millions of objects whose orbits lie close to the plane of the solar system. He was trying to explain where comets with small orbits came from. Kuiper belt, flat ring of icy small bodies that revolve around the Sun beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune. Kuiper belt and asteroid belt are very similar It looks very similar to the asteroid belt but the size is much more than the asteroid belt. In 1951 he had the idea that a belt of icy bodies might have existed beyond Neptune when the solar system formed. The Kuiper Belt is named after a scientist named Gerard Kuiper. It is more than 20 times larger in width and approximately 200 times massive than the asteroid belt . The Kuiper belt is thought to be the source of most of the observed short-period comets. Despite its massive size, the Kuiper Belt wasn't discovered until 1992 by astronomers Dave Jewitt and Jane Luu.

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