Kuiper Belt Research Papers

Many people believe the United States military uses Area 51 as a repository for extraterrestrial beings and objects. The mystery of Area 51 and what takes place there intrigues people. Although the stories and articles that are reported have never been confirmed with physical evidence or facts the idea alone that aliens may be living on Earth simply makes people curious. If the US government did not keep the operations of Area 51 a secret to the public people would not speculate that other life forms are on Earth, however the reason Americans are so curious is because they are being left in the dark and do not have any answers. Furthermore, with how massive our galaxy has already been discovered to be nobody should rule out the possibility that extraterrestrial beings have or currently are being held at the Area 51 base.

Of the more than 1,000 known objects in the Kuiper Belt, 2003 UB313 and Pluto are the largest and second largest (Brown 17-19.) Brown's states a fact of how many objects (nearly 1,000) in the Kuiper Belt are smaller than UB313 and Pluto. They are still considered bigger than what an asteroid is and still be deemed as a planet. “But subsequent study showed that Pluto is puny, barely a quarter the size of our own Moon. And we now know that Planet X never existed, the product of some subtle errors in some century-old mathematical calculations. While the first eight planets all rule their orbits,” (Gaensler 37-39.) Gaensler says in article that Pluto should not have been started as a planet because of subtle errors in some century-old mathematical calculations. Pluto was too small to be considered a planet, and should only have the first eight planets rule their orbits. From these quotes from the two articles, we learn that facts for the Pluto’s size being bigger than what people think. Pluto is basically can be a “continents” because there is large continents while small ones. If Pluto is the second largest object in the Kuiper Belt, it should be considered a planet in our eyes. The article, “Why Pluto had to go”, talks about how the size of the our moon being larger than Pluto. Pluto size doesn’t even compare to our Moon so why should it be consider a planet. I think we can learn that the first eight planets that were the largest in size should be only the ones called

With all our knowledge of everything around us, overwhelming as it may be, there are still a lot of aspects that are unknown to even the smartest scientists. Did you know that humans know only 5% of the entire universe? Yes, everything we know about the Earth, the Milky Way, and all the planets is barely even a fourth of what comprises the entirety of the universe. Knowing that, it would be illogical to say that the creatures on Earth are the only forms of life in the universe. Today I will tell you about unidentified object sightings, close

We live in a universe that is about 46 billion light years old. In a world, as massive as ours there must be some form of extraterrestrial life out in the galaxy. For thousands of years ancient peoples, such as the Greeks, have wondered the same question. Are we alone? As our technology advances, things such as videos and photographs are surfacing of people claiming to see such alien life. Whether it is an unidentified flying object, or if it’s from someone claiming to see an actual alien, there are thousands of people that believe they have seen proof. Some also claim that the government is hiding things behind our backs, like the Roswell UFO incident for example. Though many people refuse to believe in the existence of alien life forms until they see evidence, the fact that multitudes of people have eye-witness accounts, the improbability that we are alone, and the idea that we have thought of aliens so long, bring forth the evidence that proves something is out there.

Astronomers have identified plenty of objects that were circulating the sun farther away from Neptune since the year 1992. According to research, there are more than 70,000 of these small objects named as Trans-Neptunians, which had a diameter that was larger than 100 km. Also, these objects extended from Neptune’s orbit from 30 astronomical units (AU) to 50 astronomical units. There is a thick band in which these Trans-Neptunians were restricted in and this ring was named as the Kuiper Belt. One may ponder what is the significance of the Kuiper Belt? Astronomers believe that the objects within the Kuiper Belt may be the ancient remains from the early stages of development of the solar system.

Aliens and life beyond earth has been a mystery for a long time. Many people and scientist have been looking for life outside of Earth, or just floating in the sky trying to get video of it. For all of human history we have been looking for extraterrestrial life, and these are the major events of finding, debunking, and moving forward to life on earth

Korff also states, “In what is now known as the ‘the Roswell incident,’ the U.S. military is said to have quickly covered up the affair and continues to shroud it in extreme secrecy even today.”

This places the new planet more or less in the Kuiper Belt, a dark realm beyond Neptune where

Researchers say it is unusual to have contrasting bright and dark surfaces on objects in our Solar System, reflecting the fact that Pluto is far more complex than previously thought.

At the end of our Solar System lies a small a small planet, smaller than any of the other planets, Pluto. In 1905, Lowell, an american astronomer, found the force of gravity of some unknown planet that is affect the orbits of Neptune and Uranus. In 1915 he predicted the location of a new planet. Lowell used a telescope to scope the sky where he thought that the planet would be discovered at. However, Lowell died without actually discovering Pluto. In 1930 Clyde W Tombaugh took over Lowell’s research on Pluto. He used predictions made by Lowell and other astronomers and photographed the sky with a more powerful telescope. After he examined the photos he found Pluto. Lowell and Tombaugh's work helped to find the ninth planet in the solar system,

Maybe this tiny blue planet is the only place in this whole big, complicated universe where sentient beings thrive. Instead of extremely advanced alien civilizations, there could be something else called “The Great Filter”. The Great Filter is like a barrier that is very unlikely or even impossible for life to pass through. One probability is that we have already surpassed the Great Filter, making us one of the only if not the only lifeforms who’ve reached this level of intelligence. There are many instances on when this could have happened, such as when prokaryotes became eukaryotes, when humans evolved from chimps, etc (Urban). We haven’t figured out exactly the process behind how life starts and the conditions required to make it could actually be more complicated than what we’d expect. Maybe the universe was more hostile in the past and has only recently ‘cooled down’, paving way for complex lifeforms like us to exist. That would make us exceptionally rare and unique, which means that we could be one of the only or even the only civilization in the universe. Or perhaps, we’re in deep trouble and the Great Filter is still looming ahead of us. That would be suggesting that it’s common for life to reach where we are right now, but that Great Filter is preventing life from going further in almost all cases. Many other civilizations have reached our point of advancement but collapsed due to that Great Filter, and it’s unlikely that we’re going to be an exception to that inevitable doom

Most astronomers and scientists seem firmly convinced of this fact. Although there is not any direct (or even indirect) evidence to support these claims that other sentient life is sharing the universe with us. However, this lack of evidence showing that extraterrestrial life forms exist is not proof that they do not exist. It just does not seem logical that our planet is the only place where life and intelligence could have developed. The odds are billions against life of some form being unique to the Earth only. The Earth is unimportant in the grand scale of things in the galaxy. By this I am referring to its' size and position in the universe. In fact, the American Association for the Advancement of Science suggests that the true question that we should be

The topic of finding life on another planet, or seeing if we are the only ones in our Universe has been a mystery to us since the beginning of time. One of the closest findings NASA has found to this topic was exoplanets. Exoplanet is defined as a planet that orbits a star outside the solar system. NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope is the main telescope used to search for exoplanets that have similar features to Earth, and habitability on these exoplanets. NASA has found over 2,000 exoplanets so far, and out of those, there are only about eight exoplanets that seem to have a possibility on being a habitable exoplanets. Among these eight, Kepler 62f seems to be the most plausible.

To begin with, there is more than one sun out there in space, and a sun can contain about one million planets in space. Scientists have discovered about one thousand planets orbiting distant stars. They have much more to discover! There is a big possibility that in one of those planets life could exist. Another big clue that scientist have discovered is that there are many galaxies in space and we live in one. The galaxy that Earth is located at is called the Milky Way Galaxy. A galaxy can contain many planets just like our galaxy can contains over billions of planets.

A comet in the Kuiper Belt would be affected by the presence of the planets in the solar system, not only the Sun. While the Sun has a huge mass, it is more massive than any of the planets in the solar system, it is far enough away from objects within the Kuiper Belt that its affect is comparable to the planets which lay closer. Since all planets within the solar system have significant gravitational fields (particularly the gas planets), its affect on a comet orbiting the Sun may change the shape of the comet's orbit into elliptical or other shaped paths.