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Kuiper belt
  کمربند ِ کویپر  
kamarband-e Kuiper (#)
Fr.: ceinture de Kuiper  

A region of the → Solar System extending roughly from the orbit of → Neptune, or 30 → astronomical units (AU),
to 50 AU from the Sun that contains many small icy bodies. The Kuiper belt is now considered to be the source of the → short-period comets.

See also: Named after Gerard Peter Kuiper (1905-1973), a Dutch-born American astronomer, who predicted the belt in 1951. He is also considered the father of modern planetary science for his contributions to the study of our solar system; → belt.