For more info, check out the link below from NASA!
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=KBOs
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
What is the Kuiper Belt?
The Kuiper Belt is a region in space beyond the orbit of Neptune. This region, which is approximately is between 30- 50 AU from our sun, is similar to that of the asteroid belt, only much larger. To put it in perspective, its about 200 times as massive as the Asteroid belt between mars and Jupiter. But Unlike the astroid belt, the Koiper Belt is composed of volatiles like methane, water, and ammonia. This region is also where three dwarf planets reside, Pluto (our previous 9th planet #missyou), Haumea, and Makemake. Several of Neptune moons are also thought to have gathered their material from this region of space. The Kuiper Belt was discovered by a Dutch-American astronomer by the name of Gerard Kuiper. Oddly enough, this region of space has just been recently discovered, 1992 to be exact. With that said, there is still plenty to be discovered about this region of space, so it will be interesting delving in to the news surrounding this region, and learning about what we have discovered since then!
For more info, check out the link below from NASA!
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=KBOs
For more info, check out the link below from NASA!
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=KBOs
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Hi Tyler,
ReplyDeleteI like your blog and how you put in the current events such as the New Discovery mission. I like your Star Gazing music concept...that was cool. I would like to have seen more on the Kuiper Belt itself so see if you discovered anything that I missed in my blog.
Regards, Renee