Kuiper Belt: Realm of the Dwarf Planets

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34 thoughts on “Kuiper Belt: Realm of the Dwarf Planets”

  8. Its rather a collection of (comet) discs then a belt or a torus, just the comets discs, to be too tedious. Naming the region after the Irishman Kenneth Edgeworth that discovered or described it eight years before Mr. Kuiper did would be rather accurate, "Edgeworth comet discs" i would have proposed.
    And what about Sedna that shouldnt be where (or like) it is?
    What also would help would be a comparison of Triton, Pluto and Eris. Almost like compareing Haumea with Methone, a small moon of Saturn.
    Hygiea is a second dwarf planet in the so-called asteroid «belt» as far as some definition goes.
    So if you prepared this video seeming interested in many things or aspects, why do those twenty minutes lack in some data? Like the hills cloud or the Gaia space probe?
    At asteroids(at)home anybody with some computer core spare capacity can join and calculate (the fella like me having started in 2012, with 5 million points so far), rather use GPU if you are enabled. Almost every object has to be followed not to loose trace of its path.

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  17. I think Neptune went wild with KBO’s in the early days and it yanked a major planet-sized giant out of the KB and threw it at Uranus knocking it on it side then one of three things happened: 1. Uranus tipped and then threw it out of the solar system or 2. Uranus tore apart the invader and shredded it making the moons and ring system or 3. Uranus tipped and absorbed the Mini planet

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  31. Personally I think the detatched objects are the result of a passing solar system not planet 9. But I'm not an astronomer. Still, if we find kuiper belt objects from Sol in the kuiper belt of another solar system we'll know for sure. pretty sure there's some way to use isotopes and spectra to trace whether or not it came from us.

    Edit: also fun fact, the Vera C. Ruben telescope is named for the woman who first discovered dark matter.

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