Exploring the Kuiper Belt

The Kuiper Belt is located past which planet?

• Mars

• Jupiter

• Neptune

• Saturn

What are the icy leftovers in the Kuiper Belt called?

• Comets

• Asteroids

• Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs)

• Meteors

In what year was the first strange body in the Kuiper Belt discovered?

• 1982

• 1992

• 2002

• 2012

The Kuiper Belt is a region in outer space filled with ________.

• Gaseous planets

• Icy bodies

• Rocky asteroids

• Fiery stars

What did the scientists find after five years of searching beyond Neptune?

• A new planet

• A red speck

• A black hole

• A star cluster

The Kuiper Belt is a ________-shaped area in outer space.

• Ring

• Doughnut

• Spiral

• Elliptical

The Kuiper Belt is located in a ________ region of space.

• Warm

• Distant

• Crowded

• Bright

Comets are like dusty snowballs that orbit the ____.

• Earth

• Moon

• Sun

• Mars

In what year was the dwarf planet Eris discovered?

• 1943

• 1951

• 1992

• 2005

Which spacecraft was launched by NASA in 2006 to study the Kuiper Belt?

• Voyager

• New Horizons

• Apollo

• Hubble