Astronomers Dave Jewitt and Jane Luu discovered the first icy body in the Kuiper Belt, known as 1992 QB1, in 1992. Since then ...

New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, ... Astronomers identify a celestial '3-body problem' lurking in the outer solar system.

This problem has now come up again after scientists—using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the W. M. Keck Observatory—observed that the Kuiper Belt system Altjira could be a triple system.

The so-called « The problem of three bodies » The three-body problem is to find the coordinates and velocities of three material points at an arbitrary moment in time under given initial conditions ...

There's no problem, however, with what a team of researchers say is likely a stable trio of icy space rocks in the solar system's Kuiper Belt, found using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope ...

Here we used N-body computer simulations to investigate the effects of a hypothetical Kuiper Belt planet (KBP) on the orbital structure of TNOs in the distant Kuiper Belt beyond ∼50 au. We used ...

A competing theory proposes the existence of a hidden Kuiper Belt planet that’s smaller, with a mass between 1.5 and 3 times that of our world. Caltech/R. Hur The push for more evidence ...

The outer edge could be located at 80 AU, which, if Neptune’s orbit is considered where the belt starts (around 30 AU), means that the Kuiper Belt, on its own, is about 10 times bigger than the ...

Astronomers Dave Jewitt and Jane Luu discovered the first icy body in the Kuiper Belt, known as 1992 QB1, in 1992. Since then, a further 3,000 KBOs have been cataloged.

It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids in the Kuiper Belt could be triplets.