🧊 Icy Objects

• Objects in the Kuiper Belt are made of ice and rock

• Many are leftovers from the early solar system

🌍 Dwarf Planets

• The Kuiper Belt is home to dwarf planets like Pluto

• Other dwarf planets include Haumea and Makemake

🌀 Shaped Like a Disk

• The Kuiper Belt is shaped like a wide, flat ring around the Sun

🌠 Source of Comets

• Many short-period comets come from the Kuiper Belt

🌌 Very Far Away

• It is much farther from the Sun than any of the main planets

• Sunlight is very weak out there

🚀 Fun Fact

• It can take hundreds of years for objects in the Kuiper Belt to orbit the Sun!