Below you will find example sentences with "kuiper belt". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Kuiper Belt in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: belt
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 9
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 26.8 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "kuiper belt" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as in the kuiper belt, an edgeworth kuiper belt object with, planets, object and neptune stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with seat belt, black belt, conveyor belt, black belt, conveyor belt and green belt, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with kuiper belt
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After Pluto, New Horizon took a turn heading for the Kuiper Belt. (12 words)
They used New Horizons’ path to figure out where to look for hidden objects in the Kuiper Belt. (18 words)
Plutinos form the inner part of the Kuiper belt and represent about a quarter of the known Kuiper belt objects (KBOs). (21 words)
The overall structure of the charted regions of the Solar System consists of the Sun, four relatively small inner planets surrounded by a belt of mostly rocky asteroids, and four giant planets surrounded by the Kuiper belt of mostly icy objects. (41 words)
Likewise, dwarf planets in the asteroid belt and Kuiper belt should be considered planets according to Stern. citation Captured planets Free-floating planets in stellar clusters have similar velocities to the stars and so can be recaptured. (37 words)
Makemake and Haumea main : Makemake (45.79 AU average), although smaller than Pluto, is the largest known object in the classical Kuiper belt (that is, a Kuiper belt object not in a confirmed resonance with Neptune). (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Makemake and Haumea main : Makemake (45.79 AU average), although smaller than Pluto, is the largest known object in the classical Kuiper belt (that is, a Kuiper belt object not in a confirmed resonance with Neptune).
Plutinos form the inner part of the Kuiper belt and represent about a quarter of the known Kuiper belt objects (KBOs).
This choice means that, on Wikipedia, Eris, the most-massive known trans-Neptunian object, is not part of the Kuiper belt, and this makes Pluto the most-massive Kuiper belt object.
Astronomers refer to a region of minor planets beyond Neptune as the " Kuiper belt ", since Kuiper had suggested that such small planets or comets may have formed there.
Davies p. 107 "Kuiper cliff" Histogram of the semi-major axes of Kuiper belt objects with inclinations above and below 5 degrees.
Were Kuiper's hypothesis correct, there would not be a Kuiper belt today. citation The hypothesis took many other forms in the following decades.
At this distance, the dust belt may be analogous to the Kuiper belt that lies outside the orbit of Neptune in the Solar System.
Likewise, dwarf planets in the asteroid belt and Kuiper belt should be considered planets according to Stern. citation Captured planets Free-floating planets in stellar clusters have similar velocities to the stars and so can be recaptured.
The overall structure of the charted regions of the Solar System consists of the Sun, four relatively small inner planets surrounded by a belt of mostly rocky asteroids, and four giant planets surrounded by the Kuiper belt of mostly icy objects.
Stern’s talk will conclude with a look at where the spacecraft is today as it continues to explore further into the Kuiper Belt.
The Kuiper Belt is one of the largest structures in our solar system - others being the Oort Cloud, the heliosphere and the magnetosphere of Jupiter.
They used New Horizons’ path to figure out where to look for hidden objects in the Kuiper Belt.
Astronomers are investigating the possibility of a hidden ninth planet beyond Neptune, which could explain unusual orbital patterns in the Kuiper Belt.
The Kuiper Belt, a region of our solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune, is home to these old, cold objects, as well as comets, asteroids and other icy bodies.
The spacecraft was recently approved for its extended mission, allowing it to continue on its path toward the object deeper in the Kuiper Belt.
Today New Horizons is more than 315 million miles beyond Arrokoth and zooming outward through the Kuiper Belt, the icy ring of material on the solar system’s edge.
After Pluto, New Horizon took a turn heading for the Kuiper Belt.
A resident of the Kuiper Belt, a location beyond Neptune containing early remnants from our solar system's formation, it has largely remained untouched for billions of years.
Sure enough, researchers were able to locate a dimming pattern created by an Edgeworth-Kuiper belt object with a radius of 1.3 km.
The cloud consists of billions or even trillions of objects which form a sphere all around our sun, unlike the planets and the Kuiper Belt which form more of a flat disk shape around the sun.