The Kuiper Belt Is

question 57

Multiple Choice

The Kuiper belt is

• A) another name for the asteroid belt.
• B) a doughnut-shaped distribution of distant comets around the Sun, extending out about 500 au.
• C) a spherical distribution of distant comets around the Sun, extending out about 50,000 au.
• D) a random distribution of short-period comets extending from inside the orbit of Jupiter to approximately the orbit of Neptune.

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Definitions:

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