21 Must-Know Facts About The Kuiper Belt

[@InsaneCuriosity]

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[@bobsmith284]

"HD191089 is younger, and hotter" sounds like our solar system is going through a bit of a midlife crisis.

[@InsaneCuriosity]

😂

[@amangogna68]

Great video and information !

[@drblaque521]

Absolutely amazing. I learned so much, but I'd still have to watch this video 20 more times to understand 50% of what was covered.

[@juanlapuente833]

Asteroids are NOT only the ones in the asteroid belt, all minor planets of metallic, rocky or carbonaceous composition are asteroids and they are spread all across the SS

[@joannaharrison9997]

I was going to make comment about this. The Trojan Asteroids are not in the asteroid belt but are still asteroids because they orbit the sun

[@_MAXrevs_]

One of my favourite topics❤ downloaded & will enjoy it in free time :)

[@brianzomorodi]

Make a video about the Oort cloud if there is enough information is available.

[@InsaneCuriosity]

I'll consider making a video about it

[@112313]

I want to know more about the oort cloud as well

[@markrix]

I believe it was like most astronomical anomalies, stuff hit stuff.

[@jamesalexanderjimenez-medi7667]

Great video

[@marknovak6498]

There were KBOs found in the 1970s, we just did not know how to classify them. I remember the discovery of Object Kowal in 1977.

[@4KScenicViews]

Watching in 4K makes everything look so real!

[@InsaneCuriosity]

Thanks for watching!

[@russchadwell]

Liquid water can, and likely does exist among the KB objects. For those bodies orbiting with forces such that it contorts the volume within such objects, thereby warming their interior.

[@TheJadeFist]

I have no idea why this talk of the formation of planets and the kuiper belt, gives me a strange desire to see a project of just start throwing all the KBO's at each other to form a new planet. I wonder just how possible/impossible that would be. Eventually you'd get enough of a mass that it would start attracting the other smaller objects into itself. You wouldn't really have to launch objects hard, just nudge them into the right direction.

[@MrGrumblier]

I think they would end up just spreading out into a ring again due to Neptune's gravity after ejecting a few bits and bobs into the inner system.

[@TheJadeFist]

@@MrGrumblier That only really would apply if the the target object/ objects were already in a highly elliptical orbit that brought them in close enough to the outer giants. Keep in mind the belt is way farther out than we might like to think of it. The kuiper belt and oort cloud have substantial objects several times the distance from Neptune than neptune even has to the sun. Neptune probably wouldn't be that big of a factor, or at least on any mortal timescale.

[@MrGrumblier]

@@TheJadeFist Neptune is the reason for the KB. Its gravity is likely what prevented those bodies from coalescing into a planetoid, just as Jupiter prevented the formation of a planet where instead we have the asteroid belt.

[@TheJadeFist]

@@MrGrumblier Maybe in the earlier solar system, it ejected objects out that way is partially or largely responsible for the kuiper belt. But as it stands now, a lot those objects are already pretty far away. Pluto hasn't been torn asunder by tidal forces.

[@MrGrumblier]

@@TheJadeFist No, it hasn't, and neither has Eris, but you were talking about nudging bodies in order to form a new planetoid. Neptune's gravity would most likely prevent such a formation.

[@mikebrennan5802]

Thank you for your hard work putting this video together. You did a wonderful job. You are teaching us that find everything universe fascinating..I wish I discovered this love for this subject 35 years ago..I would have known what I wanted to do with my lifes work instead of getting a business degree and wasting my time with a meaningless career that will never move humanity forward and I will never get to make a difference in this world to any meaningful degree. The way I wish I could. I admire astrophysics and scientists similar to them.

[@melindagreer4177]

Kyperoid would have been a badass name.

[@InsaneCuriosity]

Thanks for the comment!

[@jssomewhere6740]

Great topic, and yes I believe there are many more large objects in the belt. No I don't think there are 200 dwarf planets yet I do think there are some big ice balls out there. Then there is the Ort cloud...

[@allan9603]

Nobody is going to change the name of asteroids, be they in the Belt or not.

[@jssomewhere6740]

@@allan9603 what?

[@allan9603]

@@jssomewhere6740 As I said. Just because an asteroid is in the Kuiper Belt, doesn't mean it's no longer called an asteroid ,as the narrator stated.

[@jssomewhere6740]

@@allan9603 But I did not reference anything as not asteroids. Large iceballs. So what you're saying makes no sense. It's like you're looking for a fight. I choose not to play your game. I don't understand what the F you're talking about. So either explain it in detail, or F -off I don't want to play your game but I can

[@StephenJohnson-jb7xe]

@@jssomewhere6740 I have a feeling that he thinks he was replying to a different comment.

[@robertnewhart3547]

"Too far from the sun" to have any liquid water. Because that is the only factor. Tidal forces, radiation Nope.

[@jimgreen5788]

At around 21:00, you mentioned that the Antipolus twins are 125,000 km apart, but the onscreen distance showed 12,500 km. Can't be both, I.C..🤨

[@OKAY_ASEE]

Astronomers are the most unimaginative namers😂

[@brianSalem541]

Me: still reeling from Pluto's demotion.

[@candy6852]

Pluto's smaller than many moons

[@Kroggnagch]

Pluto is Mickey's pet, and is an orange-ish color. But I'm almost nearly certain that he is not a planet.

[@factorpac]

Solar system Mercury Orbit/year: 87.96 earth days Axis: 58 days 15 hours 30 minutes 30 seconds Day: 176 days Satellites/Moons: 0 Venus Orbit/year: 225.7 earth days Axis: 243 days 26 minutes Day: 117 days Satellites/Moons: 0 Note: hottest planet even though is 2nd from the sun and its rotation is anti-clockwise/counterclockwise. Earth Orbit/year: 365.25 days Axis: 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds Day: 24 hours Satellites/Moons: 1 Note: only planet known to have life so far. You live in this planet. Mars Orbit/year: 2.2 earth years 686 earth days Axis: 24 hours 37 minutes Day: 24 hours 39 minutes Satellites/Moons: 2 Asteroid Belt note: If you put all the asteroids together, it will make a small planet, MAYBE the size of earth moon. Ceres Orbit/year: 4.6 earth years Axis: 9 hours 4 minutes 27 seconds Day: 9 hours 4 minutes Satellites/Moons: none Note: it is located between Asteroid Belt. Jupiter Orbit/year: 11.9 earth years Axis: 9 hours 55 minutes 43 seconds Day: 10 hours Satellites/Moons: 95 Saturn Orbit/year: 29.5 earth years Axis: 10 hours 39 minutes 24 seconds Day: 10 hours 42 minutes Satellites/Moons: 146 Note: planet with the MOST visible rings and has the most satellites/moons. Uranus Orbit/year: 84 earth years Axis: 17 hours 14 minutes 24 seconds Day: 17 hours Satellites/Moons: 27 note: it spins on its side. Neptune Orbit/year: 164.8 earth years Axis: 16 hours 6 minutes 36 seconds Day: 16 hours Satellites/Moons: 14 Note Neptune and Pluto crosses orbit lanes twice in 20 years for every 240 or 248 years Pluto Orbit/year: 247.7 earth years Axis: 6 days 9 hours 17 minutes 32 seconds Day: 6 days 9 hours 36 minutes Satellites/moons: 5 Kuiper Belt It is 20 to 200 times bigger than the asteroid belt. Haumea Orbit/year: 284.9 earth years Axis: 3 hours 54 minutes 56 seconds Day: 3 hours 9 minutes Satellites/moons: 2 Makemake Orbit/year: 309.9 earth years Axis: 22.5 hours Day: ??? Satellites/moons: 1 Sedna Orbit/year: 11.400 years Axis: 10.273 hours Day: 10.3 hours Satellites/moons: 0 Gonggong Orbit/year: 554.37 years (202.484 days) Axis: 22.4.0,18 hours (plausible) or 44.81.0,37 hours Day: 22.4 or 44.81 Satellites/moons: 1 Eris Orbit/year: 561.4 earth years Axis: ??? Day: 25 hours 9 minutes Satellites/moons: 1 Goblin Orbit/year: 32.100 years Axis:??? Day: 34080 Satellites/moons:??? Ixion Orbit/year: 251.01 years 91.240 days Axis: 12.4±0.3 or 15.9±0.5 hours approximately (to be determined and/or confirm) Day: Satellites/Moons: 0 Orcus Orbit/year: 246.6 years (89.873 days) Axis: 10.5 hours if not tidally locked with it’s moon and if tidally locked with the satellite 9.7-day Day: Satellites/Moons: 1 Quaoar Orbit/year: 288.81 years 105.416 days Axis: 17.6788 hours Day: Satellites/Moons: 1 Varuna Orbit/year: 279.83 years (102,138 days) Axis: 6.34 hours Day: Satellites/Moons: 1 (Possible)

[@InsaneCuriosity]

Thanks for sharing!

[@factorpac]

⁠no problem

[@suyapajimenez516]

There’s a reason why you have almost 2m subscribers…. YOU ARE GOOD 1:56

[@moiraatkinson]

I’m amazed our planets don’t bump into each other at times.

[@jcfreak4ever1]

And they won't, at least for the foreseeable future, cuz they're all at just the right distances to not interfere with each other physically or gravitationally(more than a very small amount, that is)... 😉

[@foreverloved129]

I don't care what anyone says.... Pluto is a PLANET!!!!

[@NazrulAsit]

Yup. A dwarf planet

[@btbb3726]

How do you throw a party for Pluto? You planet.

[@stevelee5724]

Your onto it, mate ! Cheers from New Zealand 😊

[@karimmaasri1723]

That's like the "a trans woman is a woman" argument. :)

[@gasperstarina9837]

Fwarf planet yes as few bodies already discovered there, but Pluto is 2/3 of our Moon-so dearf planet is okay...it got his own classification of planets also

[@NicholasNerios]

If only objects in the asteroid belt are considered " asteroids" then Kuiper Belt Objects could be called "Gastroids", since most these objects are gaseous and would act like comets....?

[@jamesbaumer6563]

Thunderbird is ford brother ... It's Firebird lol.. I have had my Trans Am for over 20 years now... I'll never let it go!! Pontiac always had the best stuff!! GM hasn't been the same since Pontiac had been gone

[@jcfreak4ever1]

This sounds like spam to me... If it is from a spam bot, then it can get the eff outta here... 🙄

[@hyperproductionsa]

Nibiru is up there😅

[@chrislong3938]

The Kuiper Belt is made up of the remnants of a planet once called Alderran...

[@jcfreak4ever1]

LMAO 🤣

[@xz2bzy804]

The kb is sphere of rocks and is not a ring isn’t?

[@InsaneCuriosity]

You're right! The Kuiper Belt is often depicted as a ring, but it's actually a sphere of icy objects surrounding our solar system.

[@rpbajb]

​@@InsaneCuriosity You were right the first time: the Kuiper Belt is a circumsolar disk. The Oort Cloud is a spherical distribution of objects.

[@Bluestar1079]

I don't understand how Neptune could be discovered with 19th century math and technology, yet this planet x (9) remains a mystery. Neptunes magnetic field is strange and powerful but it's not that powerful. not for all of that that's out there

[@nedanother9382]

It's a natural insainly large elliptical orbit. Per the theory...based on supposed oddities of Neptunes behavior. Truth is there are many many unknowns that could effect Neptune similarly. It keeps coming back and forth...our ability to observe is over the top now and getting better. Far far out pacing our ability to truly understand what we observe. Nothing goods gonna come from jwst for years...we'll hear a lot of crap, but years to understand.

[@michaelanderson3096]

Light sail technology - 20% of the speed of light.

[@DX2069]

I was born in the wrong century I wish I had been born like 300-500 years from now cause I truly think we would be a multi planet species by then

[@fredanderson5544]

how 'bout the oort cloud?

[@InsaneCuriosity]

The Oort Cloud is a distant region of our solar system, much farther out than the Kuiper Belt. It's believed to be a huge sphere of icy objects surrounding the Sun, and it's where many comets come from.

[@fredanderson5544]

@@InsaneCuriosity any kryptonite there?

[@keeperofwickets1781]

First sentence: 'The Kuiper Belt is one of the most distant objects in the solar system '. Uhm......object? Is the asteroid belt AN object, then?

[@robertnewhart3547]

ENGLISH matters.

[@Simon_Jakle__almost_real_name]

Why not call the "Kuiper belt" the Edgeworth comets torus? there's a gap in the two tori ("toruses") called Kuiper cliff in the video, as far as computational discovery goes (yet), so would there be an object in between? in this "documentary" there lacks a lot of content, from comparisons or not. The maker of this video must have dealt with some restrictions forcing "him" to avoid the larger part of data... like the Grand Tack or planet migration in general. Or as the question if the hills cloud (you don't know) would be pulled inward due to the missing of "Nemesis", the sun's twin or silbling (feeding Jupiter). For being published in mid-2024 there would have been a lot of data (re)sources to optimize this elongated "info-tainment" that "viewers want to see in this way". Telling "us" why some told observations would be so deeply as-t(r)on-ishing. Such video stuff "is all about" not (being able to?) tell an american truth (of "must-know facts") to viewers in countries foreign to the "U.S.", i'd add. Or did i mis-lead me into Kindergarten here?

[@BA-gn3qb]

It's still smaller than my mother-in-law's belt.

[@jaylee9244]

What about Sedna?

[@InsaneCuriosity]

Hi! Thanks for your comment. Sedna is a distant, mysterious object in our solar system, located far beyond the Kuiper Belt. It has an extremely elongated orbit, taking around 11,400 years to complete one trip around the Sun. Sedna is interesting because its unusual orbit suggests it might have been influenced by something beyond the known planets, possibly even another star.

[@jaylee9244]

@@InsaneCuriosity But it is currently inside the Kuiper belt (84au).

[@nickmullen2830]

How do KBOs leave their orbit?

[@InsaneCuriosity]

KBOs can leave their orbit due to gravitational interactions with other objects, such as Neptune or other large Kuiper Belt Objects. These interactions can alter their paths, sometimes sending them into the inner solar system or even ejecting them entirely.

[@nickmullen2830]

@@InsaneCuriosity So its kind of like that coin game at the funfair with the sliders and only if you time it right (Neptune gets close to a part of the belt that is sensitive to changes) does a KBO drop out. Makes sense.

[@vwss-java]

These repetitive images of countless rocks flying very near each other are highly misleading. If you were to sit in any random KBO without a binary companion observing the sky, you would unlikely be able to even see any other KBO due to the enourmous distances between objects. The visible sky would be only your own rock, a very distant sun, the still much more distant stars and a vast empty void between all of those.

[@stevenjaquin8218]

Bro "TNBs can't be astroids", there is allot of asteroid talk around 1:45. Less than a minute lol

[@Schemez-16vhiphopbeatz]

I thought t.n.o where the asteroids in the oort cloud

[@JacobHimmelhaver-m8g]

Sublimation is to go from a solid state to a gas state.

[@StonerWatchproductions]

The only thing you don't have in your video is the radiation exposure for people getting there🤔

[@TimmieLeeYall]

... the 'stame' star...😂😅

[@shortarms4114]

They are not asteroids,they’re hemorrhoids.

[@billotto602]

To have the same exact objects beyond Mars & beyond Neptune & one are called asteroids & the others aren't is GALLACTICLY STUPID. Sheesh. SMH 😳😳😳

[@benyomovod6904]

Pluto is a planet

[@davidl9232]

Only goofy can understand what Pluto says. And often it's only because it's been mickey moused.

[@TheHullmet]

Roger, there is a tone difference in your voice. Go see your PCP, seriously.

[@hilwaamanamankiyar-pp5bf]

10×6

[@geraldmansfield2631]

There was a planet twice the size of Earth it was called Tiamat. Tiamat got pulled in half to form the Asteroid belt. The other half reformed round to be come Earth with a new orbit. Sumerian Tablets.

[@jameshall1300]

Ah, yes, ancient tablets are definitely the definitive source for scientific information 🙄

[@scottymoondogjakubin4766]

Are solar system is not done evolving ! In fact our earth is still accumulating tons of mass year after year !

[@curtcoller3632]

What a nonsense. Asteroids are any object that is smaller than a planet, not shaped like a sphere and not a comet (with a tail). Please don't teach us the basics, learn them yourself first!

[@tirlonburke9875]

ok so what john donkey is in charge of naming things around here!! 1st the jwst is J-Dub!!! Its not that hard and saying j double you es tea is stupid long. next if an object that has a 2/1 orbital resonance with neptune is a twotino, then if the resonance is 3/1 its a threetino how is it that a bunch of rocket scientists cant figure this out and my broke butt can?

[@kalen1702]

AI voice = dislike