What Are The Similarities Between The Kuiper Belt And Oort Cloud

"Our solar system consists of one star and some debris," said Carl Sagan. There are many differences and similarities between the Inner and Outer planets. Our solar system is comprised of the Sun being in the middle, then followed by planets rotating it. The planets which orbit the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The Inner planets are very different from Outer planets and the Outer planets are completely different from Inner planets, but both are very similar in many ways. Our planets in the solar system have many similarities and differences.

The Kuiper Belt is very comparable to the Asteroid Belt. The Kuiper belt is located just past Neptune's orbit. It is made up from the debris left over from the formation of the Solar System. The belt is a collection of objects made up of rock, metal, and frozen elements such as, methane, ammonia, and water. Like the Asteroid Belt, the asteroids in this region past Neptune are not able to come together to form a planet; leaving us with the Kuiper Belt around our Solar System.

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.

Although all nine planets are a huge part of the solar system there's a lot more to the solar system than the nine planets. According to scientist the Solar System started out as an enormous cloud of gas and dust. Scientist believe that the cloud of dust and gas began to collapse under the weight of its own gravity and it did. The matter that was kept within itself began moving in a giant circle and at the center of the spinning cloud a tiny star began to form. The star eventually grew larger and collected more dust and gas that collapsed into it. Farther from the center of the mass that was being formed there was many smaller clumps of dust and gas that were also collapsing. The large cloud in the center eventually became the sun while the smaller clumps formed the planets, moons, comets and,

thousands of small icy bodies orbit the sun. The planet appears to be typical of Kuiper Belt objects--only

The Kuiper Belt is a ‘belt-like’ disc in our outer Solar System that extends from the orbit of Neptune at about 30 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun to approximately 50 AU [1]. It is like a larger version of the asteroid belt, and is mostly made up of remnants of the formation of our Solar system [2]. As the Kuiper Belt gets further away from the Sun, it also becomes denser. At its section that should be the densest it instead stops suddenly, and this abrupt ending is known as the Kuiper Cliff. The reason for this dramatic falloff is thus unknown [3], but there is one interesting theory. Patryk Lykawka of Kobe University claims that the gravitational pull of a so far unseen planet may be responsible for the behavior of the Kuiper Belt.

Since they formed past the frost line, they are cool enough that volatile gases froze and created comets. They are made up of ice, different types of gases, and dust. Most comets are in the Kuiper Belt and Oort cloud. Some comets are on paths that are closer to the sun due to them knocking each other out of orbit. “One of the most famous comets is Halley's Comet” (Kortenkamp) and “gets near the sun every 76 years”

The cloud contracted under its own gravity and our proto-Sun formed in the hot dense center. The remainder of the cloud formed a swirling disk call the solar nebula. A solar nebula is a gaseous cloud. The nebular hypothesis has become the theory of the origin of our solar system. We can relate this to the vermiculite solar nebula lab. These are related because in the lab it showed us how gravity pulled most of the materials toward the center of the water which the water was representing gravity and the vermiculite that got pulled to the center was modeling the heavier more dense planets. The vermiculite that was pushed away from the center represented lighter less dense

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.

Even today, scientists understand very little about the formation of Uranus and Neptune. This made scientists have stated that, "...the possibilities concerning the formation of Uranus and Neptune are almost endless." However, it has been suggested that this planetary system evolved in a very non-conventional manner, as described in the following lines. Planetesimals at the disk's inner edge occasionally passed through gravitational encounters with the outermost giant planet, which calter the planetesimals' orbits. The planets scattered inwards the most of the small icy bodies that they encountered, exchanging angular momentum with the scattered objects so that the planets move outwards in response, preserving the angular momentum of the system.

Asteroids are rocky leftovers with no air made during the formation of our solar system which revolves around the sun. They mostly stay in a ring around the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The formation of these rocks is called an asteroid belt. This is the main asteroid belt, and contains more than 750,000 asteroids. Asteroids are not considered planets because of how small they are. These rocks don’t weigh very much compared to Earth’s moon. Our moon weighs more than all of the asteroids combined. Asteroids in the main belt were formed around 4.6 billion years ago because the planet Jupiter prevented any planetary bodies from forming in the gap between Mars and itself. This caused objects to collide and form asteroids.

Saturn's rings are comprised mostly of ice particles, primarily sourced from the surrounding moons. The rings that surround Saturn today are not the same rings that first formed around the planet. Instead, the rings are replaced by debris formed by collisions with comets and the surrounding moons.

After regions of space collapse on itself due to gravity it creates a region dense and hot enough for stars to form. These massive clouds of dust, hydrogen, and helium provide the perfect place for many clusters of stars, old or young, big or small to flourish in. We can see further into Orion through infra-red light and radio waves revealing the materials in the cloud. Observing Orion has allowed to see many stars, and their context, as the bright massive stars form in the center and the low brown dwarfs are stuck on the edges. It can help us understand that depending on where the star forms, can influence what type of star it will be. Additionally, the ability to locate exoplanets orbiting one of these stars, which we recently talked about at

Comet and asteroid . comets are a small body of ice , rocks , and cosmic dust that follow an elliptical orbit around the sun and that gives off gas and dust in the form of a tail as it passes close to the sun and asteroids are the average distance between the Earth and the sun ; approximately 150 million kilometers (symbol AU) .

Indecent bodies like the sun. Stars are made up of big exploding balls of gas, mostly hydrogen and helium. The sun is similarly a star made up of huge amounts of hydrogen, undergoing a continuous nuclear reaction like a hydrogen bomb. Stars come about when vast clouds of hydrogen, helium and dust contract and collapse due to gravity. The clouds came from astronomical plasma from “The Big Bang”, but the dust comes from the supernovae of other stars.