It's a big mystery out there.There may be more than meets the eye with The Kuiper Belt, a ring comprising thousands of large, icy objects and dwarf planets that encircle our solar system., found evidence of a dozen large objects lying past the belt's outermost perimeter, suggesting that the belt is much deeper than once thought.
Yet by the researcher's estimates, which they stress are preliminary, the "puzzling" objects could be lurking beyond even 60 AU. That's a discrepancy of at least ten AU — an astounding distance, equal to that between the Sun and Saturn. Now at 57 AU from the Sun, New Horizons is supposed to have the Kuiper Belt in its rear-view mirror. But its sensors keep detecting dust, an indicator of collisions between objects nearby.
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