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Primer on objects in the outer solar system from The Nine Planets multimedia tour of the solar
system.
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/kboc.html
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Kuiper Belt
Guide to KBOs and recent research by Dr. David Jewitt of the University of Hawaii Institute for
Astronomy
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/kb.html
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Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs)
Basic information on the Kuiper Belt from ORRERY: the solar system in action.
http://www.harmsy.freeuk.com/kuiper.html
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A Deep Ecliptic Survey for Kuiper Belt Objects
A description of the Deep Ecliptic Survey, a systematic search for Kuiper Belt Objects using large
telescopes.
http://www.noao.edu/noao/noaonews/jun00/node2.html
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List of Transneptunian Objects
Lists currently known transneptunian objects, also known as Kuiper Belt Objects. Updated daily.
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/TNOs.html
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Distant EKOs: The Kuiper Belt Electronic Newsletter
Recent and past issues of the Distant EKOs Newsletter, a review of the science and current events
surrounding Kuiper Belt Objects
http://www.boulder.swri.edu/ekonews/issues/
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New Horizons
An unmanned Pluto-Kuiper Belt probe study. New Horizons, if approved, would launch in 2006.
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/
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Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission team dedicates Science Operations Center
On Monday, February 4, on what would have been the 96th birthday of Pluto's discoverer, Clyde W.
Tombaugh, NASA's New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission team announced the dedication of its
Science Operations Center in his honor.
http://www.swri.org/9what/releases/tombaugh.htm
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NASA Goddard Joins Team to Explore the Solar System's Final Frontier
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has joined a team led by the Southwest Research Institute to
begin design studies for what could be the first spacecraft to visit PLuto and the Kuiper Belt.
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/news-release/releases/2001/01-121.htm
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Lowell Observatory: Deep Ecliptic Survey
The official home page of the Deep Ecliptic Survey, an initial reconaissance of the Kuiper Belt
http://www.lowell.edu/Research/DES/
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UniSci: Some Kuiper Belt Objects Turn Out To Be Binary Pairs
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is hot on the trail of an intriguing new class of solar system
objects -- dim and fleeting objects that travel in pairs in the frigid, mysterious outer realm of
the solar system called the Kuiper Belt.
http://unisci.com/stories/20022/0418024.htm
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STScI: Hubble Hunts Down Binary Objects at the Fringe of Our Solar System
The Hubble Space Telescope is hot on the trail of a puzzling new class of solar system object that
might be called a Pluto "mini-me."
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/2002/04/
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nationalgeographic.com: 800-Mile-Wide "Object" Found in Solar System
Astronomers have discovered the largest object in the solar system since Pluto was named the ninth
planet in 1930.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1003_021007_quaoar.html
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How Big Is 2001 KX76?
Size comparison of 2001 KX76 and other known objects. From NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010830.html
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European Southern Observatory: Virtual Telescope Observes Large Asteroid
European Southern Observatory images of 2001 KX76
http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2001/phot-27-01.html
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Discovery Announcement of 2001 KX76
From the National Optical Astronomy Observatory Newsletter
http://www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr01/pr0110.html
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Caltech: Quaoar
Frequently Asked Questions About Quaoar
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~chad/quaoar/
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science.nasa.gov: Hubble Spots the Biggest World Since Pluto
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has measured Quaoar and found it to be 1300 km wide.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/07oct_newworld.htm
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swri.edu: A Kuiper Belt Glossary
This page lists acronyms and definitions of terms used in Kuiper belt research.
http://www.boulder.swri.edu/ekonews/glossary.html
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Scientific American: Journey to the Farthest Planet
Scientists are finally preparing to send a spacecraft to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, the last
unexplored region of our planetary system. By S. Alan Stern
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0009D736-1E25-1CD4-B4A8809EC588EEDF
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