Kuiper Belt Articles

• Extrasolar Planets
  Solar System
  Jupiter
  Astronomy
  Kuiper Belt
  Stars
   
  

  Gas giant

  A gas giant is a large planet that is not primarily composed of rock or other solid matter. Gas giants may have a rocky or metallic core—in fact, such a core is thought to be required for a gas ... > more
• Solar System
  Astronomy
  Pluto
  Sun
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Solar Flare
   
  

  Solar System

  The Solar System consists of the Sun and the other celestial objects gravitationally bound to it: the eight planets, their 165 known moons, three dwarf planets (Ceres, Pluto, and Eris and their four ... > more
• Jupiter
  Solar System
  Moon
  Pluto
  Kuiper Belt
  Astronomy
   
  

  Jupiter's natural satellites

  Jupiter has 63 known natural satellites. Although claims are made for the observation of one of Jupiter's moons by Chinese astronomer Gan De in 364 BC, the first certain observations of Jupiter's ... > more
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Solar System
  Astronomy
  Pluto
  Satellites
  Solar Flare
   

  Near-Earth asteroid

  Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are asteroids whose orbits are close to Earth's orbit. Some NEAs' orbits intersect Earth's so they pose a collision danger. On the other hand, NEAs are most easily ... > more
• Mars
  Solar System
  NASA
  Space Missions
  Space Exploration
  Astronomy
   
  

  Deimos (moon)

  Deimos is probably an asteroid that was perturbed by Jupiter into an orbit that allowed it to be captured by Mars, though this hypothesis is still in some dispute. Like most bodies of its size, ... > more
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Solar System
  Astronomy
  Pluto
  Kuiper Belt
  Extrasolar Planets
   
  

  Asteroid

  Asteroids, also called minor planets or planetoids, are a class of astronomical object. The term asteroid is generally used to indicate a diverse group of small celestial bodies that drift in the ... > more
• Solar System
  Saturn
  Moon
  Pluto
  Jupiter
  Astronomy
   
  

  Saturn's natural satellites

  Saturn is currently known to have 56 moons, many of which were discovered very recently, and 3 additional un-confirmed, hypothetical moons. However, a precise number of moons can never be given, as ... > more
• Neptune
  Solar System
  Jupiter
  Astronomy
  Pluto
  Extrasolar Planets
   
  

  Neptune

  Neptune is the eighth and outermost planet in our solar system. It is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third-largest by mass; Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more ... > more
• Uranus
  Solar System
  Astronomy
  Pluto
  Jupiter
  Moon
   
  

  Uranus

  Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is a gas giant, the third largest by diameter and fourth largest by mass. NASA's Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited the planet and no other ... > more
• Stars
  Extrasolar Planets
  Jupiter
  Sun
  Astronomy
  Solar Flare
   
  

  Red giant

  A red giant is a large non-main sequence star of stellar classification K or M; so-named because of the reddish appearance of the cooler giant stars. As Earth's sun is of one solar mass, it is ... > more

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