the.com/kuiper belt
the solar system's junk drawer, out past neptune, full of frozen leftovers from creation.
means a vast ring of icy debris beyond neptune's orbit, remnants from the birth of the solar system that never became planets.
from named after astronomer gerard kuiper, who in 1951 theorized such a region must exist, though he didn't live to see pluto's neighborhood confirmed telescopically in 1992.
pluto's addresspluto is just a large kuiper belt object
size20 times wider than the asteroid belt
comet sourcemany short-period comets originate here
new horizonsnasa probe visited object arrokoth in 2019