What is the Kuiper Belt?
O a cloud of rocks and dust surrounding the solar system
○ a region beyond Neptune in which many thousands of small objects orbit
○ small rocky bodies that are thought to be leftover remnants of the formation of the solar system
a body that is in orbit around the sun, has self-gravity, is round but lacks sufficient gravity for it to clear the neighborhood
around its orbit

The Kuiper Belt is an outer space zone that orbits beyond Neptune. It is made up of a great number of small, icy objects, including dwarf planets such as Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, and many others along with comets and asteroids. This area resembles the asteroid belt but it is greater in size and contains different types of objects mainly composed of ice rather than rock.

The Kuiper Belt holds significance because it gives us clues about how the solar system formed and developed. It is believed that these icy bodies are leftovers from when the solar system was still taking shape which makes them helpful in studying processes involved in planetary formation. Another thing to note is that according to some astronomers’ theories, this might be where comets come from that occasionally enter the inner solar system.