Kuiper belt & Oort cloud
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Kuiper belt & Oort cloud

Kuiper belt

The Kupier belt is a disc made up of asteroids and small bodies that are remnants of the early solar system.

Artistā€™s impression of a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt. Michael Carrol.
Artistā€™s impression of a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt. Michael Carrol.
Artistā€™s impression of the surface of a dwarf planet in the Kupier belt. Michael Carrol.
Artistā€™s impression of the surface of a dwarf planet in the Kupier belt. Michael Carrol.

Oort cloud

Itā€™s a hypothetical cloud of asteroids and other bodies which arenā€™t quite planets. Itā€™s extremely distant, over 1000 times as distant as the Kuiper belt.

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