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The Kuiper Belt As An Evolved Circumstellar Disk

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The Origin of Stars and Planets: The VLT View

Part of the book series: ESO ASTROPHYSICS SYMPOSIA ((ESO))

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In the past decade, more than 400 objects have been discovered in orbit about the sun beyond Neptune. They constitute a vast ring of bodies the larger of which are the surviving products of accretion in the outer circumsolar disk. This so-called Kuiper Belt is a repository of the solar system’s most primitive (volatile-rich) matter, a supplier of comets to the inner solar system and a source of collisionally produced dust with similarities to extra-solar dust disks.

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  1. Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA

    David C. Jewitt

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João F. Alves Mark J. McCaughrean

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Jewitt, D.C. The Kuiper Belt As An Evolved Circumstellar Disk. In: Alves, J.F., McCaughrean, M.J. (eds) The Origin of Stars and Planets: The VLT View. ESO ASTROPHYSICS SYMPOSIA. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10856518_53

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