Its deep and frequent cosmic vistas will help answer critical questions about the nature of dark energy and dark matter and aid studies of near-Earth asteroids, Kuiper belt objects, the structure of our galaxy and many other areas of astronomy and fundamental physics.
What does KBO stand for?
KBO stands for Kuiper Belt Object
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We have 14 other meanings of KBO in our Acronym Attic
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- Keep Buggering On (Winston Churchill)
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- Key Business Objective
- Kite and Balloon Officer (US Navy)
- Kiteboard Open (The Netherlands)
- Knowledge Based Object
- Knowledge Based Organization
- Knowledge-Business Outsourcing
- Knuth-Bendix Order
- Korean Baseball Organization
- Kansas Board of Cosmetology
- Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College (Baraga, MI)
- Kansas Board of Education
- Kentucky Board of Optometric Examiners (Lexington, KY)
- Koninklijke Belgische Ornithologische Federatie (Dutch: Royal Belgian Ornithological Federation)
- Kid Brother of Munch (food critic's brother; Pittsburgh)
- Klingon Bird of Prey
- Thousand Barrels of Oil Per Day
- Kansas Board of Regents (Topeka, KS)
- Killed Before Ordnance Release
Samples in periodicals archive:
Since then, scientists have found several Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) that are nearly as big as Pluto, including one called Sedna (see "Planets on the Edge").
Some 800 Kuiper Belt objects have been discovered, and there may be as many as 70,000 with diameters of 60 kilometers or more.
But the stakes were raised when US astronomer Professor Mike Brown and colleagues at the California Institute of Technology spotted a Kuiper Belt object bigger than Pluto, the 'ninth' planet and the most distant member of the Sun's family.
It joins the steadily growing ranks of distant Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) and previously unidentified asteroids discovered over the last few years - so many, in fact, that naming each one is becoming more bizarre.
Some astronomers believe that Pluto isn't a planet at all, but a Kuiper Belt object captured by Neptune's gravitational pull.