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part.11. The Kuiper Belt – Frozen Frontier

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Far beyond the familiar routeways of the major globes, past Neptune’s potent presence, lies a region so distant and mysterious that it escaped mortal discovery for utmost of our astronomical history. This region, a vast stretch of icy bodies and shadowed routeways , is known as the Kuiper Belt — a ring of frozen remnants left over from the foremost days of our Solar System. It's a place where sun is a dim echo of what it's on Earth, and time seems suspended in the eternal cold wave of interplanetary space. The Kuiper Belt, named after the Dutch- American astronomer Gerard Kuiper, who supposed the actuality of such a region in 1951, marks the morning of the external Solar System’s wild and uncharted frontier.

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Far beyond the familiar routeways of the major globes, past Neptune’s potent presence, lies a region so distant and mysterious that it escaped mortal discovery for utmost of our astronomical history. This region, a vast stretch of icy bodies and shadowed routeways , is known as the Kuiper Belt — a ring of frozen remnants left over from the foremost days of our Solar System. It's a place where sun is a dim echo of what it's on Earth, and time seems suspended in the eternal cold wave of interplanetary space. The Kuiper Belt, named after the Dutch- American astronomer Gerard Kuiper, who supposed the actuality of such a region in 1951, marks the morning of the external Solar System’s wild and uncharted frontier.

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