What is The Kuiper Belt: Objects At The Edge Of The Solar System
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- From what the belt is, to how it's helped change the classification of the solar system, and more! Join me as I reveal to you the facts and history of the Kuiper Belt!
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9. What Is The Kuiper Belt?
Despite it being a major part of our solar system, there are many who honestly don't understand the grand scale and scope of the Kuiper Belt. So allow us to give you some perspective on the matter.
The Kuiper Belt is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun. It is similar to the asteroid belt, but is far larger-20 times as wide and 20 to 200 times as massive.
Like the asteroid belt, it consists mainly of small bodies or remnants from when the Solar System formed.
In many respects, the Kuiper Belt is the "end" of our solar system in terms of things like the physical objects that are there and reachable. The "edge" of the solar system is a slightly different matter as that would either be the Heliosphere (if you go by magnetic fields) or the Oort Cloud, which is where the suns' gravity reaches the end of its influence.
But either way, the Kuiper Belt is a major part of our solar system in the literal and figurative sense. Which is rather interesting when you think about it because for a very long time we didn't understand what was truly in that realm of space as a whole.
8. The Discovery Of The Kuiper Belt
To truly understand the Kuiper Belt, we have to dive into something you're very familiar with, Pluto.
After the discovery of Pluto in 1930, many speculated that it might not be alone. The region now called the Kuiper belt was hypothesized in various forms for decades. It was only in 1992 that the first direct evidence for its existence was found. The number and variety of prior speculations on the nature of the Kuiper belt have led to continued uncertainty as to who deserves credit for first proposing it.
But let's go back to the beginning and just break it down from there, shall we?
The first astronomer to suggest the existence of a trans-Neptunian population was Frederick C. Leonard. Soon after Pluto's discovery by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930, Leonard pondered whether it was "not likely that in Pluto there has come to light the first of a series of ultra-Neptunian bodies, the remaining members of which still await discovery but which are destined eventually to be detected".
That same year, astronomer Armin O. Leuschner suggested that Pluto "may be one of many long-period planetary objects yet to be discovered."
This is fascinating for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which is that the discovery of Pluto should have been a finite discovery, or one that led to more study of the planet and what it could mean as a whole. Yet many scientists looked upon it and wondered if it was telling us everything we needed to know about the region.
In 1943, in the Journal of the British Astronomical Association, Kenneth Edgeworth hypothesized that, in the region beyond Neptune, the material within the primordial solar nebula was too widely spaced to condense into planets, and so rather condensed into a myriad of smaller bodies.
From this he concluded that "the outer region of the solar system, beyond the orbits of the planets, is occupied by a very large number of comparatively small bodies" and that, from time to time, one of their number "wanders from its own sphere and appears as an occasional visitor to the inner solar system", becoming a comet.
That's not a bad way to describe what the Kuiper Belt really is, and he was right that by modern classifications, the various items in the belt weren't able to go and become fully-fledged planets. But more on that in a bit.
Before we continue to break down everything that's going on with the Kuiper Belt, be sure to like or dislike the video, that way we can continue to improve our content for you, the viewer! Also be sure to subscribe so that you don't miss ANY of our weekly videos!
7. Continued Theories
The more that astronomers wondered about the Kuiper Belt, the more that speculations rose and fell about what it is, what it could be, what it could've been, and more.
Video Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:23 What Is Kuiper Belt
02:02 The Discovery Of The Kuiper Belt
04:38 Continued Theories
06:50 True Discovery
08:12 Dwarf Planets
09:51 Moons And Binaries
11:34 Exploration
12:23 Planet 9
13:14 What Will We Do With The Kuiper Belt?
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I personally like how informative this was, taught me more than my school, thanks for that x
School never teachs us anything cool. It’s all stuff we know + new stuff to add to it
Yea same it taught me more than school
This entire video was very insightful
The commentary was excellent and informative. On the down side, the visuals give the impression that objects in the Kuiper Belt are vastly denser than they in fact are.
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You guys rocks! Covering almost the whole solar system. Can't wait for the Oort Cloud video.
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@@InsaneCuriosity oh right, and I already liked and watched it, it seems, but I don't remember 😅. Must have been my wife.
Fascinating. Thanks for uploading and all your work.
Really brilliant 👍
Absolutely mindblowing and I'm very excited about exploring space. With the proviso of developing it, in such a way that avoids more waste. Be it in getting there, and/or exploiting the value of things that are there.
I’d have a hard time traveling out to the Kuiper Belt-imagine being so far from the sun. I’d get homesick.
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they want us to "like OR dislike" the video so they can improve their videos! wow! i love this channel.
Asteroid belt: Who are you?
Kuiper Belt: I'm you but BIGGER
The Ort Cloud: Aww, The kids are fighting again
Love watching your videos
Insanely interesting, thanks. Subbed.
So thrilling and knowledgeable
I love the topic and I don't care what anybody say Pluto is is a planet is that grandfathered in
Absolutely @RolandMichels (see below) ... Dr. Gerard Kuiper should definitely be mentioned. I suggest #InsaneCuriosity updates this clip with at least a mention since he gave us tremendous insight of our solar system with limited technology of his time!
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Fantastic video, except for that blue lightning in the background of the static images...
It would be insane to go there. Ask to go there in the afterlife?
Mining the Kuiper and/or asteroid belt could add substantial weight to Earth and thus affect its orbit or rotation.
2. 'Planet 9' indirect observations are most probable due to an observational bias; the telescopes used, and time slots available for those observations (night), all point to a select part of the solar system. This resulted in the seemingly offset spread of elliptical orbits used to estimate the possible ninth planet.
If there is a planet 9 and it is in the Kuiper belt, it still couldn't be classified as a planet even if it was large because it hasn't cleared it's orbit. There would have to be a cleared orbit inside the belt (possible but unlikely) or it would have to be outside the belt but it would have to be pretty large to explain the gravitational effects mentioned.
Why is Dr. Gerard Kuiper, after whom the belt was named, not mentioned?
Indeed!
This is a very elementary video missing many other facts and misclaims others, like saying the three dwarf planets are the only ones. There are many more that have been found.
I thought it was named for Duane Kuiper, weak hitting 2nd baseman for the Cleveland Indians
@@Jose_Hunters_EWF_Remixes or Mel Kiper from ESPN, LOL
But Pluto is the only one in the belt that has an orbit around the sun even if it’s unique so does this mean a dwarf planet with an orbit is a new category?
WXCELLENT IF NOT OUTSTANDING !!!! YES! PLEASE MORE & MORE !!!! FROM U.K. (2022).
Amazing that not only did Sir Roderick Kuiper-Belt discover this, but he also invented toothpaste.
Those kipper belt objects that grouped together whose orbits are out of the ecliptic is very interesting. Perhaps there is a ninth planet out there. The question is is there a ninth planet out there and if there is will they ever find it
Super video
Amazing
wow........... very informative its hard for me to wrap my mind around it all its so seemingly infinite and the structure so intricately complex. Formation Humanity existence add structure to it all and how it's all woven together leaves my mind in a euphoric blank and the only thing I can conceptually pulled together with your video hopefully it will give me ammunition to try and fend off Neil's pluto bash'n and regain some of its sort of non prominent stature that had to be relinquished; in turn, to be promoted above being a mere meek vulnerable planet to a guardian ;lol, omg ty
The idea of a new planet 9 seems to be dying. It was suggested due to interplay between several KBO objects orbiting in a pattern. But as they identify and plot the orbits of additional object, that pattern seems to be due to selection problems. That suggestion of a outer planet no longer is implied because the multiple objects no longer show a pattern when the new objects are added in.
THANK YOU.
Finally, someone gets it. Planet X does not exist. 👍🏻
Pluto is more of a planet the more abstracted you become really, which is kind of an irony to the whole astronomy astrology and physics thing, but that kind of fits the emotion of the whole logic thing anyways…
At last i now understand the difference between the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud...
Awesome
Did you really miss the most obvious?? The Name Kuiper Belt?
Gerard Kuiper (Gerrit Pieter Kuiper 1905-1973) who suggested a belt of objects beyond the orbit of Neptune in 1951.
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Is not there Scattered disk between Kuiper belt and Oort cloud? I am vary confused cause some say there are Scattered disk after Kuiper belt and some say there are not.🤔🤔🤔
Saturn’s Phoebe came from the Kuiper Belt. With an added hint of protomolecule
The kooper belt.
Need a vid on how Neptune May have stole triton from the Kuiper belt 💯💯💯💯💯
The kuiper belt is not an object. The kuiper belt is a area with a significant number of objects that has a general shape
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What's the use of a countdown when there's just the one subject?
Wouldn't the kuiper belt be an orbital of the Sun if we conceive of the Sun as the nucleus of a massive scale stellar scale atom?
The average distance between Objects is more than a Million Miles, not nearly as close as what is shown.
Yes! So...so...much more,want some more of our solar system mistery.....🥺🤔👀😅🥰❤️ I hope there is a very massive...objects that make the Kuiper Belts orbit the Solar System which is undiscovered yet 💥
the sumerians called it rakish the hammered bracelet or also firmament many thousands of years ago
they also knew pluto they knew the color of uranus and neptune that we only discover in the 80's with mariner space probe
ps : read the 12th planet by zecharia Sitchin and you're gonna find out where all these asteroïds are originating from : )
I’m not discrediting anyone or anything on the work that has been performed for many hundreds of years on our solar system. I actually take my hat off to them all. NASA has done so much and paid, with a lot of I call bad luck. There is so much to still learn.
You aren't always talking to physicists. Always ensure to give detailed descriptions of your research and do not rush over things.
As a mining space industry, it will provide raw materials for centuries to come, that Kuiper Belt!!!
Just takes 15 yrs or more to get there
@@markmitchell450 Asteroid belt's a lot closer and plenty of exotic metals to resource there.
I wonder if others solar system out there have these kind of belts too?
Planet 9? How about Planet X!
If you Earthlings don't behave, I'll get the Belt out!
What about the Dwarf Planet Eris?
How is it that hubble can take pictures of galaxies far from our solar system but couldn't take pictures of these hidden planets and the kuiper belt?
I wonder this myself, but if I were to guess its because the objects that can be seen from far away are much more massive, and much more luminous.
The reason is light. Most Objects this far out are dark. They only can be spotted by Occultation with a Star. That is how New Horizons found the Ultima Thule. ( It's original name) They did 3 to know exactly where it was. It was much harder to do the flyby compared to Pluto.
Doesn't the sun's gravity influence go to the next star tho? Cause the ort cloud stretches over 3/4 the way to the next star? js
It could be possible, our understanding of how Gravity functions at very large scales is quite possibly flawed (the need for Dark Matter could be a symptom of that) and a number of new theories relating to the behaviour of Gravity are in the process of being developed.
hopefully, they'll gonna find vibranium in kuiper belt.
If Terrestrial planets, Gas Giantplanets and Ice Giant planets are planet’s, why aren’t Dwarf planets? Plus none of the canonical planets of our Solar System have really cleared their orbits. Neptune even less so, considering the Plutonian system and other Kuiper Belt Objects cross it’s orbit.
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What about Vulcan? Or was that just something that Spock cooked up?
Future planets once the sun turns red giant
Please give update on betelgeuse
I'm looking forward to seeing it but i liked the first one.
It's back to normal. There you go.
is the kuiper belt not the counter weight of pluto?
1:10 where is ERIS????
When CZcams is better than school lol
Very interesting Interstellar space maybe it's possible
Hmmmm no mention about the planet named Maldek that was blown to pieces that ended up Becoming the Kuiper belt interesting
The fucking what
It makes sense to me. Though, scientists in general say there is no definitive proof nor evidence of an older Super-Earth-sized planet having been in orbit between Mars and Jupiter any time during the past.
Scientists also point to Jup's utterly enormous gravitational forces and go so far as to acknowledge the initial formations of said cosmic body, but state the immense gravity from Jupiter would have torn said forming planetoid to shreds long before it could grow to the size if would need to be in order to produce the mass present found within the Kuiper belt.
I always thought that the Astroid Belt was what the Annunaki referred to as "The Hammered Bracelet" which was Tiamat or Maldeck? The Kuiper Belt is Further out. There were many Wars. 2 Galactic Wars I thought? There was the "Uprising" where Zeus (The Zu Zu) Supreme Commander of the Annunaki Space Forces and The Supreme Commander of the Marines/ Super Soldiers. Zeus was Annu's Nephew and Royal Cup Bearer to. They had 2 huge Wars!The Second Time Annu's Death Star got Blown up By The Death Star that Zues captured in their first Space Battle. The Mighty Arr II, banged into Mars and threw it off it's course which is why Mars is so desolate. It was like a small Earth and Maldeck/Tiamat is what Earth is but 1/5 of. Tara, was Taraformed by Enki. That's why there's Flash Frozen Beings in Antarctica. This Planet lost it's atmosphere for a while. I could be right, or close? I definitely like what you said though. Why hasn't the World been taught our True Galactic History? That's because The Religious Community wishes to stay in a Slave Master Controlling mode. Furthermore they don't want us to know the Truth. Most people already think that they know Everything and believe everything they've been told and taught. Some people are waking up and are hungry for the Truth. I hope that the Good Timeline comes to Fruition VS The crappy one that keeps Humanity Ignorant of their God Given right to Be Consciously more developed. We don't know what were capable of being of the demand for our time to survive too.
Thank! But here is catch Pluto & Charon & a few other Planetoids are merely moons from the neighbors System close by Neptune furthermore! Mercury is originally of the Jovian system Jupiter. Goodness gracious so I’m not the only person who know this after all the evidence for the Maldec incident is clear look Mars a crime scene Venus a big crime scene you go to the Planetoids of Jupiter & the impact craters are a key man! Even on Pluto you can See a huge Impact from when it was or upon being ejected out of the Neptunian system. what crazier about all this is that Instruments used in the Maldec incident are on our planet today but I won’t say more the Masses don’t know & will know when the time comes.
@@glennhalila8279 get a life nerd.
Three chemicals essential for life. Wow the universe is alive.
There are NOT going to be any mining camps in the Kuiper-Belt because of the distance with NO gravity to speak of! If there are mining, it will be done by asteroids, with will be a big problem because even the rovers on Mars had to communicate with handlers on earth, which took some time, and that time would be much more in the Kuiper Belt
3:47 . . . . . does anybody remember when Jupiter had a Ring just like Saturn ? and Uranus ?
Neptune too
Asteroid Mining!
Keron Williams you got to catch them fist!
And, the next is X planet are Nibiru the great
How can Pluto be "discovered" if its already be mentioned in ancient text and history?
You know I would be curious to see how much the lack of light pollution In ancient times factors when compared to today with a modern telescope. I have a 12 inch Newtonian Telescope and Pluto’s just a little to far out in its orbit to be seen with it even in rural areas in a Florida. The fact they could see Pluto with the naked eye , god it must’ve been a beautiful night sky. They noticed Pluto then they had to of noticed Uranus. We can see that with the naked eye today.
Pluto for me is still a planet. Kuiper belt is so big.. could be there de 9 Planet? I don't know
Yeah it's possible, my opinion is that it do exist
Yes it has a moon it's has orbit hell venus and mercury don't have moons why are they planets
They say it's a possibility of either planet 9 or a small black hole on the other side of the Kuiper belt. Astronomers noticed odd orbits out there but can't find the reason why since there's not much light that far so they believe it's either a big planet out there or a small black hole.
I still consider Pluto a planet also.
steve mathis Pluto travels on an elliptical orbit unlike the other 8 Planets...Moons don’t define a Planet. I feel your pain though : )
Was this video a Guinness world record attempt for having the most adverts in one video?? 🤨
Fast forward videos and just replay. All adverts will be gone ✌️
Could asteroids be same material like the pryramids of Egypt?
No. Don’t ask dumb questions
😂🤣🤭🤦♀️👋 lol
I can see how a colony in the kuiper belt would eventually break off from Earth like we did from England
Planet nine, y’all talking about heaven?
Because I mean, all the names follow a plan right?
Ceres was the first 9th planet till it was demoted to an asteroid ,
The asteroid belts total mass equals to the moon, no planet there never
I love space Imagination is endless...👍🏼
Video Using a picture of Hubble saying it was Tombaugh smh.
I don't wanna be dismissed as an conspiracy theorist but isn't the solar system very suspiciously protective of life on earth?
First we have the ozone layer, than the zone in space that needs to be breached to escape earth's gravity, than we have the asteroid belt, than the Kuiper belt and finally the Oort cloud...
A lot of defensive mechanism in place in one small part of the universe...
Also I find the Oort cloud's existence to be a big mystery since the Sun shouldn't be that strong in the gravity department to keep trillions of heavenly bodies floating for billions of years.....yet never pull any of the inner planets to itself
Pluto isn an a Kuiper Belr planet
Aren't traits something a thing has, not be?
Seems we are supposed to stay here.
As usual the graphics are WRONG! The likelihood of seeing an object in the belt from another is slim to none. Space between objects are not as this vid implies visualy.
Same goes for the asteroid belt.
I've seen the StarTrek series and most of Star Wars and I can assure you that this is depicted correctly.
@@kennethhodge7953 very impressive credentials
Instead of discovery we should used confirmed 👍 you can't discover something that's written in stone 😉 hell even the dogon tribe told us about Pluto
Great info, but... the animation is terribly wrong! Kuiper bodies are flying on a distance 100's of 1000's or millions km out from each other. Also I disagree with Oort Cloud hypothesis. There is no colossal sphere, kept by the Sun (2 l.y. in diameter), full of icy bodies. Those comets just a strangers in interstellar space, exiles from stars. Trillions of them!
Great video but asteroids are not near to each other like your video they are far a part with million kilometers
We all know Pluto is a moon not a planet
That's incorrect. Dwarf planet.
You guys need some sleep you work too hard to upload for us
Seriously, we need a vacation 🙂
If it has a moon it's a planet. I don't care what the egg heads say.
Ok
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Umm so Mars shouldn't be a planet also it hasn't cleared its neighborhood of debris lmao what a joke!
Pluto is a planet
:)
I probably won’t be around to see humanity reach and mine the asteroid belt, but I love to see “us” making strides to one day journey passed our moon.
The asteroid belt is between Mars and saturn the kieber belt is at the outer edge of the solar system
How do you know that someone isn't already mining the Astroid belt for precious metal and or minerals and that they haven't publicized it, like so many other subjects like our True Galactic History, which I believe is being distorted at best or omitted completely or ignored like the History of the various Giants (both Good and Evil, canabalistic) that lived on this and Other planets? Why doesn't the Mainstream Media seem to not be able to comprehend what the Giza Pyramids, the Bosnian Pyramids and the Alaskan Pyramid's function and purpose TRULY IS? The video sounds good, like most materials being promoted, but it leaves out our Galactic History like Stewart Swerdlow and Zachariah Sitchen's videos cover.
I have to ROFLMAO when words such as "Suggested" and "Theory" and derivatives of those words are presented as being factual.
Suggestions and theories lead to understanding, further research and then facts.
Roll your neck in, and listen to Physics.
The pure science
@@brendanquinlan5936 .... 99% of physics is nothing bu theories. ROFLMAO
Nothing is fact when nothing but suggestions and theories are presented as "facts".
You “roll on floor laughing my ass off” at that? Damn, if you watch an episode of Spongebob or something you would die
@@SweetLolita .... I look at you and will have the same reaction. :P
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