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| Paper: |
Enlarging the Solar System: the Kuiper Belt |
| Volume: |
107, Completing the Inventory of the Solar System |
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245 |
| Authors: |
Luu, J.; Jewitt, D. |
| Abstract: |
The latest addition to the inventory of the solar system is a large population of planetesimals situated beyond Neptune. This population is identified as the Kuiper Belt, a disk-like distribution of icy bodies whose existence was predicted based on cosmogonic considerations. The Kuiper Belt is estimated to contain $\sim$ 70,000 objects with diameters $> 100$ km ($\sim$ 0.06 $M_{\rm Earth}$) in the 30-50 AU zone. This paper summarizes the latest census on the Kuiper Belt population. |
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