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The Solar System

The Kuiper Belt and Beyond

What is the Kuiper Belt?

The Kuiper Belt (also called the Kuiper-Edgeworth Belt) is a doughnut-shaped region that extends between about three to eight billion miles (five to twelve billion kilometers) out from the Sun. Its inner edge is about at the orbit of Neptune, while its outer edge is about twice that diameter.



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