Life Beyond Neptune: The Kuiper Belt & Scattered Disc
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The solar system is enormous, and includes the Kuiper Belt and the Scattered Disc, both of which turn out to be really weird in some pretty awesome ways.
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Sources:
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Participate/learn/What-We-Know.php?link=The-Kuiper-Belt
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/kbos/indepth
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v362/n6422/abs/362730a0.html?foxtrotcallback=true
https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/features/cosmic/solar_system_info.html
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-horizons-reveals-pluto-s-atmospheric-pressure-has-sharply-decreased
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/PI-Perspectives.php?page=piPerspective_08_08_2017
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http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast161/Unit4/dance.html
Images:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PIA17046_-_Voyager_1_Goes_Interstellar.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Astronomical_unit.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lhborbits.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kuiper_belt_-_Oort_cloud-en.svg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%27s_impression_dwarf_planet_Eris.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eris_Orbit.svg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EightTNOs.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pluto-FlyoverAnimation-20150918.webm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Haumea_rotation_with_ring.gif
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Neptune_Full.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pluto-01_Stern_03_Pluto_Color_TXT.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pluto-BlueSkyFinal_PIA21590.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:14-281-KuiperBeltObject-ArtistsConcept-20141015.jpg
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1400/interstellar-crossing-the-cosmic-void/
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