I was originally not going to do this, but I am because spacelover2527 asked me to ^_^'
(Back to the counting again, lol)1. The Kuiper Belt extends from roughly the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU out to about 55 astronomical units from the Sun). Many regions contain differences and the main body of the belt covers most of one region, ranging from nearly 40 AU to 48 AU. Most areas are thick, and other regions conclude a disk of scattered objects that are a population of worlds called Trans-Neptunian objects.
2. The Kuiper Belt could contain hundreds and thousands of ice chunks that could be as large as 100 kilometers across or even more. These could even be called little ice worlds or "Ice Worldlets".
3. Astronomers have discovered short-period comets from the Kuiper Belt. Their orbit period lasts 200 years or less, which is why they are called Short-period comets.
4. There could be more than a trillion comet nuclei in the main body of the Kuiper Belt.
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