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- 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.
www.noao.edu/noao/noaonews/jun00/node2.html
- 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.
solarsystem.nasa.gov/whatsnew/pr/020221A.html
- 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
www.boulder.swri.edu/ekonews/issues
- Kuiper Belt - Guide to KBOs and recent research by Dr. David Jewitt of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/kb.html
- Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) - Basic information on the Kuiper Belt from ORRERY: the solar system in action.
www.harmsy.freeuk.com/kuiper.html
- List of Transneptunian Objects - Lists currently known transneptunian objects, also known as Kuiper Belt Objects. Updated daily.
cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/TNOs.html
- Lowell Observatory: Deep Ecliptic Survey - The official home page of the Deep Ecliptic Survey, an initial reconaissance of the Kuiper Belt
www.lowell.edu/Research/DES
- 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.
www.gsfc.nasa.gov/news-release/releases/2001/01-121.htm
- New Horizons - An unmanned Pluto-Kuiper Belt probe study. New Horizons, if approved, would launch in 2006.
pluto.jhuapl.edu
- Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission team dedicates Science Operations Center - On Monday, February 4, on what would have been the 96th birthday of Plutos discoverer, Clyde W. Tombaugh, NASAs New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission team announced the dedication of its Science Operations Center in his honor.
www.swri.org/9what/releases/tombaugh.htm
- 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."
oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/2002/04
- 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.
seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/kboc.html
- 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.
unisci.com/stories/20022/0418024.htm
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