Assertion: planet's region | /r/Synonym | the kuiper belt
Facets:
value: beyond the orbit of neptune—
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: In the early 1990s, astronomers began finding numerous icy worlds orbiting the Sun in a doughnut-shaped region called the Kuiper Belt beyond the orbit of Neptune—out in Pluto's realm.
text: Estimates are that up to 200 dwarf planets may be found when the entire region known as the Kuiper belt is explored, and that the number may exceed 10,000 when objects scattered outside the Kuiper belt are considered.
text: A growing number of astronomers argued for Pluto to be declassified as a planet, because many similar objects approaching its size had been found in the same region of the Solar System (the Kuiper belt) during the 1990s and early 2000s.
text: Some astronomers theorized that Pluto was merely an icy body located beyond Neptune’s orbit in a region that was later called the Kuiper Belt.
text: Now Brown and Caltech colleague Konstantin Batygin have found evidence of a planet 10 times bigger than Earth, orbiting far beyond Pluto in a dark region called the Kuiper Belt.
text: It is suspected that at least another 40 known objects in the Solar System are dwarf planets, and estimates are that up to 200 dwarf planets may be found when the entire region known as the Kuiper belt is explored, and that the number might be as high as 2000 when objects scattered outside the Kuiper belt are considered.
text: Estimates are that up to 200 dwarf planets may be found when the entire region known as the Kuiper belt is explored, and that the number may exceed 10,000 when objects scattered outside the Kuiper belt are considered.