kupier belt objects (kbos) are comets found at pluto.
kupier belt objects (kbos) are comets found at pluto.
kupier belt objects (kbos) are comets found?
pluto
pluto's true place in the solar system began to reveal itself only in 1992, when astronomers began to find small icy objects beyond neptune that were similar to pluto not only in orbit but also in size and composition. this trans-neptunian population is thought to be the source of many short-period comets. pluto is now known to be the largest member of the kuiper belt, a stable belt of objects located between 30 and 50 au from the sun. as of 2011, surveys of the kuiper belt to magnitude 21 were nearly complete and any remaining pluto-sized objects are expected to be beyond 100 au from the sun. like other kuiper-belt objects (kbos), pluto shares features with comets; for example, the solar wind is gradually blowing pluto's surface into space. it has been claimed that if pluto were placed as near to the sun as earth, it would develop a tail, as comets do. this claim has been disputed with the argument that pluto's escape velocity is too high for this to happen. nonetheless, it has also been claimed that pluto may have formed as a result of the agglomeration of numerous comets and related kuiper belt objects.
pluto
bullet::::- trans-neptunian objects (tnos) are anything with a mean orbital radius greater than 30 au. this classification includes the kuiper-belt objects (kbos), the scattered disc, and the oort cloud.









































bullet::::- kuiper-belt objects extend from roughly 30 au to 50 au and are broken into the following subcategories:









































bullet::::- resonant objects occupy orbital resonances with neptune, excluding the 1:1 resonance of the neptune trojans.
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