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The Kuiper Belt is a disk-shaped region past the orbit of Neptune roughly 30 to 100 AU from the Sun containing many small icy bodies. It is now considered to be the source of the short-period comets.

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Kuiper Belt Guide to KBOs and recent research by Dr. David Jewitt of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/kb.html

Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) Basic information on the Kuiper Belt from ORRERY: the solar system in action. www.harmsy.freeuk.com/kuiper.html

A Deep Ecliptic Survey for Kuiper Belt Objects A description of the Deep Ecliptic Survey, a systematic search for Kuiper Belt Objects using large telescopes. www.noao.edu/noao/noaonews/jun00/node2.html

List of Transneptunian Objects Lists currently known transneptunian objects, also known as Kuiper Belt Objects. Updated daily. cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/TNOs.html

Distant EKOs: The Kuiper Belt Electronic Newsletter Recent and past issues of the Distant EKOs Newsletter, a review of the science and current events surrounding Kuiper Belt Objects www.boulder.swri.edu/ekonews/issues

New Horizons An unmanned Pluto-Kuiper Belt probe study. New Horizons, if approved, would launch in 2006. pluto.jhuapl.edu

Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission team dedicates Science Operations Center On Monday, February 4, on what would have been the 96th birthday of Pluto's discoverer, Clyde W. Tombaugh, NASA's New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission team announced the dedication of its Science Operations Center in his honor. www.swri.org/9what/releases/tombaugh.htm

NASA Goddard Joins Team to Explore the Solar System's Final Frontier NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has joined a team led by the Southwest Research Institute to begin design studies for what could be the first spacecraft to visit PLuto and the Kuiper Belt. www.gsfc.nasa.gov/news-release/releases/2001/01-121.htm

Lowell Observatory: Deep Ecliptic Survey The official home page of the Deep Ecliptic Survey, an initial reconaissance of the Kuiper Belt www.lowell.edu/Research/DES

UniSci: Some Kuiper Belt Objects Turn Out To Be Binary Pairs NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is hot on the trail of an intriguing new class of solar system objects -- dim and fleeting objects that travel in pairs in the frigid, mysterious outer realm of the solar system called the Kuiper Belt. unisci.com/stories/20022/0418024.htm

nationalgeographic.com: 800-Mile-Wide "Object" Found in Solar System Astronomers have discovered the largest object in the solar system since Pluto was named the ninth planet in 1930. news.nationalgeographic.com/../2002/10/1003_021007_quaoar.html

How Big Is 2001 KX76? Size comparison of 2001 KX76 and other known objects. From NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day. antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010830.html

European Southern Observatory: Virtual Telescope Observes Large Asteroid European Southern Observatory images of 2001 KX76 www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2001/phot-27-01.html

Discovery Announcement of 2001 KX76 From the National Optical Astronomy Observatory Newsletter www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr01/pr0110.html

Caltech: Quaoar Frequently Asked Questions About Quaoar www.gps.caltech.edu/~chad/quaoar

science.nasa.gov: Hubble Spots the Biggest World Since Pluto NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has measured Quaoar and found it to be 1300 km wide. science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/07oct_newworld.htm

swri.edu: A Kuiper Belt Glossary This page lists acronyms and definitions of terms used in Kuiper belt research. www.boulder.swri.edu/ekonews/glossary.html

Scientific American: Journey to the Farthest Planet Scientists are finally preparing to send a spacecraft to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, the last unexplored region of our planetary system. By S. Alan Stern www.sciam.com/..

The Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud Primer on objects in the outer solar system from The Nine Planets multimedia tour of the solar system. www.nineplanets.org/kboc.html

STScI: Hubble Hunts Down Binary Objects at the Fringe of Our Solar System The Hubble Space Telescope is hot on the trail of a puzzling new class of solar system object that might be called a Pluto "mini-me." hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2002/04

Distant EKOs The Newsletter is dedicated to the dissemination of research relevant to the Kuiper belt. The goal is to provide researchers with easy and rapid access to current observational and theoretical studies of the Kuiper belt, directly related objects, and othe www.boulder.swri.edu/ekonews

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