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A Deep Ecliptic Survey for Kuiper Belt Objects (Popularity:  )
http://www.noao.edu/noao/noaonews/jun00/node2.html
A description of the Deep Ecliptic Survey, a systematic search for Kuiper Belt Objects using large telescopes.
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Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) (Popularity: )
http://www.harmsy.freeuk.com/kuiper.html
Basic information on the Kuiper Belt from ORRERY: the solar system in action.
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Distant EKOs: The Kuiper Belt Electronic Newsletter (Popularity: )
http://www.boulder.swri.edu/ekonews/issues/
Recent and past issues of the Distant EKOs Newsletter, a review of the science and current events surrounding Kuiper Belt Objects
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science.nasa.gov: Hubble Spots the Biggest World Since Pluto (Popularity: )
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/07oct_newworld.htm
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has measured Quaoar and found it to be 1300 km wide.
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List of Transneptunian Objects (Popularity: )
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/TNOs.html
Lists currently known transneptunian objects, also known as Kuiper Belt Objects. Updated daily.
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Scientific American: Journey to the Farthest Planet (Popularity: )
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0009D736-1E25-1CD4-B4A8809EC588EEDF
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
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Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission team dedicates Science Operations Center (Popularity: )
http://www.swri.org/9what/releases/tombaugh.htm
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 ...
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Lowell Observatory: Deep Ecliptic Survey (Popularity: )
http://www.lowell.edu/Research/DES/
The official home page of the Deep Ecliptic Survey, an initial reconaissance of the Kuiper Belt
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How Big Is 2001 KX76? (Popularity: )
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010830.html
Size comparison of 2001 KX76 and other known objects. From NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day.
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UniSci: Some Kuiper Belt Objects Turn Out To Be Binary Pairs (Popularity: )
http://unisci.com/stories/20022/0418024.htm
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, ...
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swri.edu: A Kuiper Belt Glossary (Popularity: )
http://www.boulder.swri.edu/ekonews/glossary.html
This page lists acronyms and definitions of terms used in Kuiper belt research.
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NASA Goddard Joins Team to Explore the Solar System's Final Frontier (Popularity: )
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/news-release/releases/2001/01-121.htm
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 ...
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New Horizons (Popularity: )
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/
An unmanned Pluto-Kuiper Belt probe study. New Horizons, if approved, would launch in 2006.
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nationalgeographic.com: 800-Mile-Wide "Object" Found in Solar System (Popularity: )
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1003_021007_quaoar.html
Astronomers have discovered the largest object in the solar system since Pluto was named the ninth planet in 1930.
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The Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud (Popularity: )
http://www.nineplanets.org/kboc.html
Primer on objects in the outer solar system from The Nine Planets multimedia tour of the solar system.
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Discovery Announcement of 2001 KX76 (Popularity: )
http://www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr01/pr0110.html
From the National Optical Astronomy Observatory Newsletter
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Distant EKOs (Popularity: )
http://www.boulder.swri.edu/ekonews/
The Newsletter is dedicated to the dissemination of research relevant to the Kuiper belt. The goal is to provide researchers with easy and rapid access to current observational and theoretical ...
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STScI: Hubble Hunts Down Binary Objects at the Fringe of Our Solar System (Popularity: )
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2002/04/
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."
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European Southern Observatory: Virtual Telescope Observes Large Asteroid (Popularity: )
http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2001/phot-27-01.html
European Southern Observatory images of 2001 KX76
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Wikipedia: Kuiper Belt (Popularity: )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt
Area of the solar system extending from within the orbit of Neptune to 50 AU from the sun.
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