Kuiper Belt: the Final (Solar) Frontier

Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory
Cindy Weehler, KPNO/NOAO RET

Resources

NOAO Newsletter Article
This is the newsletter article on which this Current Science Highlight is based.
http://www.noao.edu/noao/noaonews/jun00/node2.html

Scientific American article
This Scientific American feature article features an excellent overview of the Kuiper Belt and KBOs, by Dave Jewitt, finder of first KBO
http://www.sciam.com/0596issue/0596jewitt.html

Encyclopedia of the Solar System
Paul R. Weissman, Lucy-Ann McFadden, Torrence Johnson

Comet Science: The Study of Remnants from the Birth of the Solar System
Jacques Crovisier, Therese Encrenaz
Cambridge University Press (short); ISBN: 0521641799
January 2000

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