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klemol [59]
3 years ago
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Comets travel in orbits around the Sun. Some comets take less than 200 years to orbit the Sun. They are called short-period come

ts. Short-period comets are thought to originate in the Kuiper Belt, which is a belt of icy objects just beyond the orbit of the planet _____. The dwarf planet ______ is located in this belt.
Physics
2 answers:
Nina [5.8K]3 years ago
5 0

the planet neptune

The dwarf planet pluto.

The question literally has the words dwarf planet in it.  Pluto is the only dwarf in the solar system. All you had to do was look up which planet is in front of Pluto.

Elenna [48]3 years ago
5 0

Answer:

Planet: Neptune

Dwarf Planet: Pluto

Explanation:

Kuiper belt starts just after the orbit of planet Neptune at a distance of around 30 AU (1AU = 150 Million km) and extends up to 50AU from the Sun. This is home to billions of comet as well as lot of rocky bodies. Most famous of them is Pluto, which was earlier designated as a planet. In 2006, when the criteria for declaring a celestial body as a planet were reworked, Pluto was designated as a dwarf Planet.

The comet are thought to have formed at the time of the Solar system formation and resides in Kuiper Belt and Oort's cloud. The comets which reside in Kuiper belt are known as short period or periodic comets.

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