So the basics of the Kuiper belt is that it is the outermost part of our solar system. Past Neptune 30 to 50 AU's lies this belt with a wealth of undiscovered objects out in it. From what understand of the basics of it it is where comets tend to come from in our solar system this is just my first post I haven't understood the rest of the meaning of the kuiper belt just yet. What's it true purpose and meaning to our lives currently. It also includes the planet Pluto. Excuse me former planet Pluto turned dwarf planet as of August 24th 2007. The Kuiper belt is mostly considered to be leftovers from planetary formation in from beginning of our solar system. This makes the belt interesting because we may be able to learn how matter from the earliest stages of the solar system interact with one another, and how it may affects us today.
Proportionally in this photo you can see why Pluto's planet
status was revoked. It has more going on it than our moon but it's definitely smaller than our moon. It is believe that Charon once considered Pluto's moon is
actually believed to have it's own mini-planetary system going on with Pluto.
Does that make it a dwarf system? There is no clear evidence of that system but
it is on the modern front of astronomy. Hydra and Nix though are two moons of
Pluto though obviously these moons are quite small they still have affects on
Pluto. Pluto's average temperature is between -235 and -210C.Pluto's atmosphere is made up of mostly of nitrogen and carbon monoxide. Although we have our first space mission on it's way to make a flyby Pluto we do not have any close up photos of it, and we cannot guarantee what the composition of the planet is. Astronomers assume that planet is about 70% rock and 30% liquid, but this is just what astronomers believe, when we land there, if we land there the analysis could be enitrely different.
