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What is the Kuiper Belt compared with the asteroid belt?
Quick Answer
The Kuiper Belt is a distant ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune, unlike the rocky asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
The Full Story
The Kuiper Belt lies in the outer Solar System, starting beyond Neptune’s orbit. It contains icy objects such as Pluto and many smaller bodies, and it is a major source of short-period comets. The asteroid belt, by contrast, is closer to the Sun and contains mostly rocky and metallic objects. Both regions are leftovers from Solar System formation, but they have very different compositions and locations.
Key Facts
1.The Kuiper Belt lies beyond Neptune
2.Pluto is one of its best-known objects
3.The asteroid belt lies between Mars and Jupiter
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