(from the article `Kuiper belt`) The first Kuiper belt object (KBO) was discovered in 1992 by the American astronomer David Jewitt and graduate student Jane Luu. Designated 1992 QB1, ... ...system during the formation of Uranus and Neptune; they are believed to form the Oort cloud, a huge spherical shell surrounding the solar system ......
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An ice-and-rock body that resides in the Kuiper Belt. Several hundred Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) have been discovered since the first in 1992, ranging in size up to a thousand kilometers or more. KBOs are important because they represent original samples of accreted material from the nebula from w...
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