Colonizing the Kuiper Belt (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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Introduction
The Kuiper Belt is a region outpass the orbit of Neptune of many unattached minor planets and icy objects orbiting our Sun. The name is in honor of Gerard Kuiper, the astronomer who discovered two of the bigger moons of Neptune and Uranus. He also helped identify landing sites on our own Moon for the Apollo missions. We typically define it as a donut or torus-shaped region stretching from 30 to 50 astronomical units - one AU is the distance of Earth from the Sun.
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