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Science: Astronomy: Solar System: Pluto
A Deep Ecliptic Survey for Kuiper Belt Objects
A description of the Deep Ecliptic Survey, a systematic search for Kuiper Belt Objects using large telescopes.
Distant EKOs: The Kuiper Belt Electronic Newsletter
Recent and past issues of the Distant EKOs Newsletter, a review of the science and current events surrounding Kuiper Belt Objects
Kuiper Belt
Guide to KBOs and recent research by Dr. David Jewitt of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
The Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud
Primer on objects in the outer solar system from The Nine Planets multimedia tour of the solar system.
Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs)
Basic information on the Kuiper Belt from ORRERY: the solar system in action.
List of Transneptunian Objects
Lists currently known transneptunian objects, also known as Kuiper Belt Objects. Updated daily.
Lowell Observatory: Deep Ecliptic Survey
The official home page of the Deep Ecliptic Survey, an initial reconaissance of the Kuiper Belt
New Horizons
An unmanned Pluto-Kuiper Belt probe study. New Horizons, if approved, would launch in 2006.
UniSci: Some Kuiper Belt Objects Turn Out To Be Binary Pairs
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is hot on the trail of an intriguing new class of solar system objects -- dim and fleeting objects that travel in pairs in the frigid, mysterious outer realm of the solar system called the Kuiper Belt. (April 18, 2002)
STScI: Hubble Hunts Down Binary Objects at the Fringe of Our Solar System
The Hubble Space Telescope is hot on the trail of a puzzling new class of solar system object that might be called a Pluto "mini-me." (April 17, 2002)
A Shortcut to Pluto
New Horizons mission team plots a faster path to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. Spacecraft could complete 3 billion mile journey by 2015. (February 21, 2002)
Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission team dedicates Science Operations Center
On Monday, February 4, on what would have been the 96th birthday of Pluto’s discoverer, Clyde W. Tombaugh, NASA’s New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission team announced the dedication of its Science Operations Center in his honor. (February 6, 2002)
NASA Goddard Joins Team to Explore the Solar System's Final Frontier
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has joined a team led by the Southwest Research Institute to begin design studies for what could be the first spacecraft to visit PLuto and the Kuiper Belt. (December 7, 2001)
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