This region's outer edge, a namesake "cliff," is home to the twotinos (two-TEEN-o's) named as they are in one-to-two resonance with a planetary orbit; objects in this region that aren't in a resonance pattern are known as cubewanos.
This region's outer edge, a namesake "cliff," is home to the twotinos (two-TEEN-o's) named as they are in one-to-two resonance with a planetary orbit; objects in this region that aren't in a resonance pattern are known as cubewanos. This region was once hypothesized to be the origin of short-period comets, which are now thought to originate in the more distant (*) Oort Cloud. The home of Eris and Pluto, name this "belt" of space beyond Neptune, named for a Dutch astronomer.
This region's outer edge, a namesake "cliff," is home to the twotinos (two-TEEN-o's) named as they are in one-to-two resonance with a planetary orbit; objects in this region that aren't in a resonance pattern are known as cubewanos.
Edgeworth-{Kuiper} Belt