21 Must-Know Facts About The Kuiper Belt
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- 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.
21. 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.
20. It is larger than the asteroid belt
19. The Kuiper Ice
As we said in point 1, KBOs cannot be classified as asteroids since they are located outside the asteroid belt.
18. Neptune, the orchestra director
17 . 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
16. Uncertain origin
Just as the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter has an uncertain origin, the Kuiper belt has a, until now, unknown origin
15. Natural Time Capsule
Thanks to the fact that the KBO is permanently frozen, any phenomenon in them is recorded and remains unchanged for billions of years.
14. Home of possible planets?
As we mentioned in point 2, the Kuiper belt has a mass that exceeds that of the asteroid belt by more than 200 times.
13. Origin of Comets
For years, one of the biggest mysteries of the solar system that astronomers didn't know how to answer was: Where did comets come from?
12. Origin of moons
Just as a KBO can leave its orbit and become a comet, sometimes these can be captured by the gravity of a planet. Then, instead of becoming comets, they become natural satellites of another planet.
11. Kuiper Cliff
The Kuiper Cliff is the name scientists give to the farthest part of the Kuiper Belt.
10) The first KB object was discovered in 1992
Pluto, a dwarf planet, stands out
9) We have been to the KB in 1983
NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft became the first to venture into the Kuiper Belt area in 1983, surpassing Neptune's orbit.
8) Arrokoth can be found in the KB
Upon closer examination, the object that initially resembled a snowman is actually a combination of two smaller objects that have been fused together for billions of years.
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7) The KB hosts the farthest object from the Sun: Farfarout
In 2018, astronomers made a groundbreaking announcement about the discovery of the most distant resident within our solar system.
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6) Eris, KBO that could have been a planet
In July 2005, scientists made a significant finding: a Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) initially believed to be around 10 percent larger than Pluto. T
5) The KB hosts Cubewanos
Not everybody knows that the Kuiper Belt is home to a peculiar group of celestial neighbors known as Cubewanos.
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4) The KB has Twins: Antipholus and Antipholus
Now, speaking of Cubewanos.
3) Is it safe for a spacecraft to cross the KB?
The possibility of the Kuiper Belt preventing humans from venturing beyond the solar system has always sparked curiosity. However, rest assured that this is not the case.
2) The KB is not unique to our Solar System
Similar to the abundance of confirmed exoplanets..
1) Astronomers have found the closest KB analog
Among the imaged debris disks, one stands out for its resemblance to our Kuiper Belt in both size and shape.
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00:00 Intro
00:15 21) Does not contain any asteroids
1:12 20) It is larger than the asteroid belt
2:06 19) The Kuiper Ice
2:57 18. Neptune, the orchestra director
4:17 17 . It's huge!
5:17 16) uncertain origin
6:27 15. Natural Time Capsule
7:57 14. Home of possible planets?
8:51 13) Origin of Comets
10:38 12) Origin of Moons
11:16 11) Kuiper Cliff
12:14 10) The first KB object was discovered in 1992
13:30 9) We have been to the KB in 1983
14:44 8) Arrokoth can be found in the KB
15:36 7) 7) The KB hosts the farthest object from the Sun: Farfarout
17:54 6) Eris, KBO that could have been a planet
19:03 5) The KB hosts Cubewanos
19:38 4) The KB has Twins: Antipholus and Antipholus
21:28 3) Is it safe for a spacecraft to cross the KB?
22:20 2) The KB is not unique to our Solar System
24:10 1) Astronomers have found the closest KB analog
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"HD191089 is younger, and hotter" sounds like our solar system is going through a bit of a midlife crisis.
😂
Asteroids are NOT only the ones in the asteroid belt, all minor planets of metallic, rocky or carbonaceous composition are asteroids and they are spread all across the SS
I was going to make comment about this. The Trojan Asteroids are not in the asteroid belt but are still asteroids because they orbit the sun
Absolutely amazing. I learned so much, but I'd still have to watch this video 20 more times to understand 50% of what was covered.
Make a video about the Oort cloud if there is enough information is available.
I'll consider making a video about it
I want to know more about the oort cloud as well
I believe it was like most astronomical anomalies, stuff hit stuff.
Great video and information !
One of my favourite topics❤ downloaded & will enjoy it in free time :)
There were KBOs found in the 1970s, we just did not know how to classify them. I remember the discovery of Object Kowal in 1977.
Great video
Astronomers are the most unimaginative namers😂
I have no idea why this talk of the formation of planets and the kuiper belt, gives me a strange desire to see a project of just start throwing all the KBO's at each other to form a new planet. I wonder just how possible/impossible that would be. Eventually you'd get enough of a mass that it would start attracting the other smaller objects into itself.
You wouldn't really have to launch objects hard, just nudge them into the right direction.
I think they would end up just spreading out into a ring again due to Neptune's gravity after ejecting a few bits and bobs into the inner system.
@@MrGrumblier That only really would apply if the the target object/ objects were already in a highly elliptical orbit that brought them in close enough to the outer giants. Keep in mind the belt is way farther out than we might like to think of it.
The kuiper belt and oort cloud have substantial objects several times the distance from Neptune than neptune even has to the sun.
Neptune probably wouldn't be that big of a factor, or at least on any mortal timescale.
@@TheJadeFist Neptune is the reason for the KB. Its gravity is likely what prevented those bodies from coalescing into a planetoid, just as Jupiter prevented the formation of a planet where instead we have the asteroid belt.
@@MrGrumblier Maybe in the earlier solar system, it ejected objects out that way is partially or largely responsible for the kuiper belt. But as it stands now, a lot those objects are already pretty far away. Pluto hasn't been torn asunder by tidal forces.
@@TheJadeFist No, it hasn't, and neither has Eris, but you were talking about nudging bodies in order to form a new planetoid. Neptune's gravity would most likely prevent such a formation.
Liquid water can, and likely does exist among the KB objects. For those bodies orbiting with forces such that it contorts the volume within such objects, thereby warming their interior.
Pluto is Mickey's pet, and is an orange-ish color. But I'm almost nearly certain that he is not a planet.
Thunderbird is ford brother ...
It's Firebird lol..
I have had my Trans Am for over 20 years now... I'll never let it go!!
Pontiac always had the best stuff!! GM hasn't been the same since Pontiac had been gone
Me: still reeling from Pluto's demotion.
Pluto's smaller than many moons
The Kuiper Belt is made up of the remnants of a planet once called Alderran...
If only objects in the asteroid belt are considered " asteroids" then Kuiper Belt Objects could be called "Gastroids", since most these objects are gaseous and would act like comets....?
Nibiru is up there😅
I don't understand how Neptune could be discovered with 19th century math and technology, yet this planet x (9) remains a mystery. Neptunes magnetic field is strange and powerful but it's not that powerful. not for all of that that's out there
It's a natural insainly large elliptical orbit. Per the theory...based on supposed oddities of Neptunes behavior. Truth is there are many many unknowns that could effect Neptune similarly. It keeps coming back and forth...our ability to observe is over the top now and getting better. Far far out pacing our ability to truly understand what we observe. Nothing goods gonna come from jwst for years...we'll hear a lot of crap, but years to understand.
Great topic, and yes I believe there are many more large objects in the belt. No I don't think there are 200 dwarf planets yet I do think there are some big ice balls out there.
Then there is the Ort cloud...
Nobody is going to change the name of asteroids, be they in the Belt or not.
@@allan9603 what?
@@jssomewhere6740 As I said.
Just because an asteroid is in the Kuiper Belt, doesn't mean it's no longer called an asteroid ,as the narrator stated.
@@allan9603
But I did not reference anything as not asteroids. Large iceballs. So what you're saying makes no sense. It's like you're looking for a fight. I choose not to play your game. I don't understand what the F you're talking about. So either explain it in detail, or F -off
I don't want to play your game but I can
@@jssomewhere6740 I have a feeling that he thinks he was replying to a different comment.
First sentence: 'The Kuiper Belt is one of the most distant objects in the solar system '. Uhm......object? Is the asteroid belt AN object, then?
ENGLISH matters.
There’s a reason why you have almost 2m subscribers…. YOU ARE GOOD 1:56
"Too far from the sun" to have any liquid water. Because that is the only factor. Tidal forces, radiation Nope.
At around 21:00, you mentioned that the Antipolus twins are 125,000 km apart, but the onscreen distance showed 12,500 km. Can't be both, I.C..🤨
Why not call the "Kuiper belt" the Edgeworth comets torus? there's a gap in the two tori ("toruses") called Kuiper cliff in the video, as far as computational discovery goes (yet), so would there be an object in between? in this "documentary" there lacks a lot of content, from comparisons or not. The maker of this video must have dealt with some restrictions forcing "him" to avoid the larger part of data... like the Grand Tack or planet migration in general. Or as the question if the hills cloud (you don't know) would be pulled inward due to the missing of "Nemesis", the sun's twin or silbling (feeding Jupiter). For being published in mid-2024 there would have been a lot of data (re)sources to optimize this elongated "info-tainment" that "viewers want to see in this way". Telling "us" why some told observations would be so deeply as-t(r)on-ishing. Such video stuff "is all about" not (being able to?) tell an american truth (of "must-know facts") to viewers in countries foreign to the "U.S.", i'd add. Or did i mis-lead me into Kindergarten here?
Sublimation is to go from a solid state to a gas state.
They are not asteroids,they’re hemorrhoids.
The only thing you don't have in your video is the radiation exposure for people getting there🤔
The kb is sphere of rocks and is not a ring isn’t?
You're right! The Kuiper Belt is often depicted as a ring, but it's actually a sphere of icy objects surrounding our solar system.
@@InsaneCuriosity You were right the first time: the Kuiper Belt is a circumsolar disk. The Oort Cloud is a spherical distribution of objects.
Pluto is a planet
It's still smaller than my mother-in-law's belt.
Light sail technology - 20% of the speed of light.
... the 'stame' star...😂😅
10×6
I don't care what anyone says.... Pluto is a PLANET!!!!
Yup. A dwarf planet
How do you throw a party for Pluto?
You planet.
Your onto it, mate ! Cheers from New Zealand 😊
That's like the "a trans woman is a woman" argument. :)
Fwarf planet yes as few bodies already discovered there, but Pluto is 2/3 of our Moon-so dearf planet is okay...it got his own classification of planets also
What about Sedna?
Hi! Thanks for your comment. Sedna is a distant, mysterious object in our solar system, located far beyond the Kuiper Belt. It has an extremely elongated orbit, taking around 11,400 years to complete one trip around the Sun. Sedna is interesting because its unusual orbit suggests it might have been influenced by something beyond the known planets, possibly even another star.
@@InsaneCuriosity But it is currently inside the Kuiper belt (84au).
These repetitive images of countless rocks flying very near each other are highly misleading. If you were to sit in any random KBO without a binary companion observing the sky, you would unlikely be able to even see any other KBO due to the enourmous distances between objects. The visible sky would be only your own rock, a very distant sun, the still much more distant stars and a vast empty void between all of those.
How do KBOs leave their orbit?
KBOs can leave their orbit due to gravitational interactions with other objects, such as Neptune or other large Kuiper Belt Objects. These interactions can alter their paths, sometimes sending them into the inner solar system or even ejecting them entirely.
@@InsaneCuriosity So its kind of like that coin game at the funfair with the sliders and only if you time it right (Neptune gets close to a part of the belt that is sensitive to changes) does a KBO drop out. Makes sense.
how 'bout the oort cloud?
The Oort Cloud is a distant region of our solar system, much farther out than the Kuiper Belt. It's believed to be a huge sphere of icy objects surrounding the Sun, and it's where many comets come from.
@@InsaneCuriosity any kryptonite there?
Bro "TNBs can't be astroids", there is allot of asteroid talk around 1:45. Less than a minute lol
Are solar system is not done evolving ! In fact our earth is still accumulating tons of mass year after year !
There was a planet twice the size of Earth it was called Tiamat. Tiamat got pulled in half to form the Asteroid belt. The other half reformed round to be come Earth with a new orbit. Sumerian Tablets.
Ah, yes, ancient tablets are definitely the definitive source for scientific information 🙄
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