11 Facts You Need To Know About The Kuiper Belt

The Kuiper Belt is one of the most distant objects in the solar system, but although our astronomical observation technologies have improved dramatically during the last decades, we are still not able to observe all the objects in this distant region of the solar system, is for this reason why the Kuiper Belt is one of the most mysterious places and in this video, we will show you ten impressive things you should know about the Kuiper Belt.

11. Does not contain any asteroids
When talking about the Kuiper belt, it is usually described as an asteroid belt similar to the one between Mars and Jupiter but located beyond Neptune.

10. It is larger than the asteroid belt
Although our telescopes do not allow us to see all of the KBOs, thanks to data collected by the Minor Planet Center of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, we know that the number of KBOs can be up to 200 times more massive than the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

9. The Kuiper Ice
As we said in point 1, KBOs cannot be classified as asteroids since they are located outside the asteroid belt. Still, in addition to not being in the exact location, Kuiper belt objects have another difference concerning asteroids.

8. Neptune, the orchestra director
Although the distances between the planets in the solar system are vast, the gravity of giant planets such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune can influence each other and generate something called "Orbital Resonance."

7 . It's huge!
The central yellow dot is the Sun, the red dots with letters are the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, and the disk with blue and orange dots are the KBOs known to date

6. Uncertain origin
Just as the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter has an uncertain origin, the Kuiper belt has a, until now, unknown origin.
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DISCUSSIONS & SOCIAL MEDIA

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00:00 Intro
00:40 Does not contain any asteroids
1:20 Kbo (kuiper belt objects)
1:40 10) It is larger than the asteroid belt
2:29 9) The Kuiper Ice
3:20 8. Neptune, the orchestra director
4:40 7 . It's huge!
5:40 6) uncertain origin
6:50 5. Natural Time Capsule
8:20 4. Home of possible planets?

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[InsaneCuriosity]

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[pieterschadron]

The average distance between Kuiper belt objects (larger then 100 meters or 300 feet in diameter) is around 1 AU (the distance between the Sun and Earth). The artist impression that is being used therefore gives a completely wrong impression. Problem is that almost all artist impressions make this mistake.

[YeenMage]

@4:07 I think you MIXED UP the orbital resonances. 2:3 resonance means Neptune completes 3 orbits while the other orbits 2 times. The same with 1:2 resonance - 2 orbits of Neptune for 1 orbit of a KBO. NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. Common sense since Neptune is usually closer to the Sun than Pluto and KBOs so it is faster in general. Kindly check your facts first. I am getting tired of your errors since you created your channel.

[dasgibmekker]

Excuse me, is this the comet section? 🤔

[noneya]

Not sure why so many people accept that the asteroid belt is fully known. We are still finding new moons around Jupiter and Saturn and new asteroids in the solar system so the idea that we have any thing as wide spread as the asteroid belt fully “mapped” is a bit silly.

[benjauron]

Do a video comparing the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud.

[TheTamriel]

Currently it still takes 10 years to reach the Kuiper belt and some 6.5 years to traverse it successfully.

[Numba]

To quote Douglas Adams, space is big. In the tremendous open spaces of just our own solar system, there is so much still left to discover! It's a fascinating cosmos we live in. Thank you guys for another interesting video.
God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

[Bryanvaughn-st]

You dont need a telescope to love but the freedoms they gave us was outstanding

[elricmagar]

Only problem i have is single astroid is thousands of miles apart but we are shown like attached to each other 😂

[JohnRandomness]

1:00 Asteroid outside the "Asteroid Belt"? Pardon me, a small fraction of asteroids have been found outside the belt, and a few are even near-earth asteroids.
2:20 200 times the mass of the Asteroid Belt. Suppose 15 times the radius and 15 times the spread. That's about 225 times the area, so 200 times implies a similar density.

[barak]

An asteroid doesn't have to come from the asteroid belt to be classified as an asteroid. At least according to astrophysicists.

[mooonman]

This whole video can be summed up by saying "Hey did you know there's a lot of shit in space"

[allan]

#1 Fact: All these depictions of rocks being close together, crashing into each other is a bunch of Bravo Sierra!

The truth of the matter is that the Kuiper Belt is so large and spread out, that the meteors are actually millions of miles apart.

[greggweber]

2:00 Is the density of the Kuiper Belt the same as the Asteroid Belt?

[allan]

The Kuiper Belt in no way looks like how it's shown here.

[manlikeme]

So does every solar system have a Kuiper Belt?

[MonsterSound.Bradley]

Makemake is over 100°C warmer than previously thought also with evidence of methane leading to speculation its core is hot. More speculation of liquid under the crust and the "possibility" of life. 3:11 "Never say never.

[mogeking]

There is trillions of dollars of gold, copper, platinum, iron, silver ……….and every other elements that you can think of it’s a mineral minors dream come true, so pack your chuckwagon spaceships 🚀 and let’s get to mining.

[Bk]

ive watched all fast and the furious movies; i can drive there in 3 hours.
My logic is undeniable