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Kuiper belt object

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Kuiper belt object
n. Abbr. KBO
Any of the small icy bodies orbiting the sun in the Kuiper belt, generally having a diameter less than Pluto's. Pluto is a large Kuiper belt object that was probably captured in its present solar orbit by an encounter with the planet Neptune.
[After Gerard Kuiper (1905-1973), Dutch-born American astronomer who speculated about the existence of such bodies.]
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Noun1.Kuiper belt object - any of many minor planets in the Kuiper belt outside the orbit of Neptune at the edge of the solar system
KBO
minor planet, planetoid - any of numerous small celestial bodies that move around the sun


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That Kuiper belt object now is located 58 AU from the sun, or nearly twice as far from the sun as Neptune is.
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The new Sedna formation study used a planetary accretion code developed by Stern with funding from NASA's Origins of Solar System's Program in the late 1990s for studies of the formation of Kuiper Belt Objects.
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