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. We want to learn more about you and your opinions! If you have time, please take a moment to fill out this survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SciShowSurvey2017 Thank you! Hosted by: Reid Reimers ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Kelly Landrum Jones, Sam Lutfi, Kevin Knupp, Nicholas Smith, Inerri, D.A. Noe, alexander wadsworth, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Bella Nash, Charles Southerland, Bader AlGhamdi, James Harshaw, Patrick Merrithew, Patrick D. Ashmore, Candy, Tim Curwick, charles george, Saul, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Viraansh Bhanushali, Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Justin Lentz ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- 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 https://www.space.com/34066-pluto-moon-charon-red-spot-source.html https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v522/n7554/full/nature14469.html https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/oort/indepth http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8205/819/2/L38/pdf 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/