Introduction

The Kuiper Belt is a massive stretch of space, elsewhere the past identified gaseous gigantic planet of the Solar System, which is the Neptune. The Kuiper Belt is as ancient as the Solar System. It was at the time of the creation of our Solar System that greatest of rock stones, soils and vapors were used up to form the Sun and the 8 celestial bodies. The residual rock stones, soils and vapors were then brushed off to the Sun or the external peripherals of the Solar System. This space is composed of icy objects (Baidya, 2014).

It’s Discovery-

In 1950, Jan Oort, a Dutch astronomer declared that the comets that we generally notice in our familiar solar system truly initiate from far extents of the solar system. But before Jan, Kenneth Edgeworth, a different astronomer, announced in 1943 that huge celestial bodies and comets might be present afar from Neptune. Lastly, astronomer Gerard Kuiper, in 1951 foretold that there is a presence of a massive stretch of icy entity afar from Neptune. This massive extension, today is termed as Kuiper Belt. (Baidya, 2014)

Location of Kuiper Belt-

The Kuiper Belt spreads roughly from the track of Neptune (at 30 Astronomical Units to about 55 Astronomical Units) from the Sun. The chief frame of this belt conceals most of this area, stretching from almost 40 AU to 48 AU. It is dense in most of the places and astronomers have defined it as an entity, which is torus in shape than a normal belt would be. Other counties of the Kuiper Belt contain a ring of dispersed substances that contribute to the population of worlds called Trans-Neptunian Objects.