Kuiper belt

Meanings

Proper Noun

• A region of space between 30 and 50 astronomical units from the Sun, roughly confined within a thick band around the ecliptic of the Solar System. This area is populated by many thousands of trans-Neptunian objects.

Noun

• a type of asteroid belt found in the outer regions of planetary systems that forms an annular belt or disc around the system's center, lying beyond the planetary formation region for major planets, which may extend outwards to reach the inner Oort cloud

Related

Similar words

• Edgeworth-Kuiper belt

Narrower meaning words

• Kuiper disc / Kuiper disk

Broader meaning words

• belt
• asteroid belt

Origin

• Named after the astronomer Gerard Kuiper (1905-1973); and belt.