Kuiper Belt
Links
Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs)
http://www.harmsy.freeuk.com/kuiper.html
Basic information on the Kuiper Belt from ORRERY: the solar system in action.
A Deep Ecliptic Survey for Kuiper Belt Objects
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.
List of Transneptunian Objects
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/TNOs.html
Lists currently known transneptunian objects, also known as Kuiper Belt Objects. Updated daily.
Distant EKOs: The Kuiper Belt Electronic Newsletter
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
New Horizons
An unmanned Pluto-Kuiper Belt probe study. New Horizons, if approved, would launch in 2006.
Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission team dedicates Science Operations Center
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 Science Operations Center in his honor.
UniSci: Some Kuiper Belt Objects Turn Out To Be Binary Pairs
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, mysterious outer realm of the solar system called the Kuiper Belt.
nationalgeographic.com: 800-Mile-Wide "Object" Found in Solar System
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.
How Big Is 2001 KX76?
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010830.html
Size comparison of 2001 KX76 and other known objects. From NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Discovery Announcement of 2001 KX76
http://www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr01/pr0110.html
From the National Optical Astronomy Observatory Newsletter
science.nasa.gov: Hubble Spots the Biggest World Since Pluto
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.
swri.edu: A Kuiper Belt Glossary
http://www.boulder.swri.edu/ekonews/glossary.html
This page lists acronyms and definitions of terms used in Kuiper belt research.
Scientific American: Journey to the Farthest Planet
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
The Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud
http://www.nineplanets.org/kboc.html
Primer on objects in the outer solar system from The Nine Planets multimedia tour of the solar system.
STScI: Hubble Hunts Down Binary Objects at the Fringe of Our Solar System
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."