Kuiper Belt

A disc of icy bodies, thousands now catalogued.

Surveys here and beyond found the extreme objects whose odd orbits revived the Planet X idea.

Sources

1. Jewitt & Luu 1993, Nature 362:730 (1992 QB1)
2. NASA Solar System Exploration

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