Solar System: Kuiper Belt

Guide to KBOs and recent research by Dr. David Jewitt of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy

Basic information on the Kuiper Belt from ORRERY: the solar system in action.

A description of the Deep Ecliptic Survey, a systematic search for Kuiper Belt Objects using large telescopes.

Lists currently known transneptunian objects, also known as Kuiper Belt Objects. Updated daily.

Recent and past issues of the Distant EKOs Newsletter, a review of the science and current events surrounding Kuiper Belt Objects

An unmanned Pluto-Kuiper Belt probe study. New Horizons, if approved, would launch in 2006.

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.

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.

The official home page of the Deep Ecliptic Survey, an initial reconaissance of the Kuiper Belt

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.

Astronomers have discovered the largest object in the solar system since Pluto was named the ninth planet in 1930.

Size comparison of 2001 KX76 and other known objects. From NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day.

European Southern Observatory images of 2001 KX76

From the National Optical Astronomy Observatory Newsletter

Frequently Asked Questions About Quaoar

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has measured Quaoar and found it to be 1300 km wide.