What does KBO stand for?

Kuiper Belt Object

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Haumea is already the only Kuiper Belt object known to be part of a collisional family--other chunks, besides the moons, are known to have been created when a large impactor, perhaps 500 kilometers in diameter, struck the once-larger dwarf planet in the distant past, Brown says.

Moons are icy all the way through: bodies likely chipped from Haumea ...

The furthest planet orbits just inside a disk of dusty debris, similar to that produced by the comets of the Kuiper Belt objects of our solar system.

First direct images of multi-planet system around a normal star ...

The International Astronomical Union adopted this definition in 2006 following the discovery in 2003 of Eris, a Kuiper Belt object larger than Pluto.

Cambridge Illustrated Dictionary of Astronomy

Some astronomers believe that Pluto isn't a planet at all, but a Kuiper Belt object captured by Neptune's gravitational pull.

Summer space highlights; NASA scores some victories

Moreover, if PLUTO is pruned from the planetary tree (and reclassified as a Kuiper Belt object, as some astronomers now propose), the symbolic treelike (or perhaps SUNflowerlike) aspect of the planetary network (and earth's role as its base) becomes even more apparent.

Plane earth planet packings

``Based on our images, some of us are leaning towards the view that has been promoted recently, that Phoebe is probably ice-rich and may be an object originating in the outer Solar System,more related to comets and Kuiper Belt objects than to asteroids.

Spacecraft sends back images of Saturn's oddball moon

Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) like Quaoar may be leftovers from the creation of our solar system, scientists say.

Poor Pluto. (Space)

About 40 Kuiper belt objects have been discovered since 1992.

A lone star beyond the final frontier