Kuiper belt (1992 QB1)
Cinturón de Kuiper (1992 QB1)
- Date
- 1992 · confidence high
- Place
- Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii, United States
- Credited to
- David Jewitt, Jane Luu
- People
- 👤 David C. Jewitt1958–👤 Jane Luu1963–
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
After five years of searching, Jewitt and Luu found the first trans-Neptunian object besides Pluto, revealing a disc of icy bodies predicted by Edgeworth and Kuiper.
What it led to
- Reclassification of Pluto
- Discovery of Eris, Makemake, Haumea
- New Horizons mission to Arrokoth
Built on
Made possible
- Discovery of Quaoar2002
- Discovery of Sedna2003
- Discovery of (90482) Orcus2004
- Discovery of Makemake2005
- Eris and the dwarf planet definition2005
- Haumea (dwarf planet)2003-2005 (disputado)
- New Horizons: first flyby of Pluto14 de julio de 2015
- Planet Nine hypothesis2016
- Oumuamua, first interstellar object2017
- Wide-field CCD cameras