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Description: Objects of the Kuiper belt (blue). Plot displays the known positions of objects in the outer Solar System within 60 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun. Epoch as of January 1, 2015.       Sun       Jupiter trojans (6,178)       Giant planets: Jupiter (J), Saturn (S), Uranus (U) and Neptune (N)       Centaurs (44,000)       Kuiper belt (>1,000)       Scattered disc       Neptune trojans (9) Notes: Orbital elements were converted to positions using MERCURY (Chambers 1999). Distances but not sizes are to scale.
Title: Kuiper belt plot objects of outer solar system
Credit: Orbital elements from the Minor Planet Centre: minorplanetcenter.org the Canada-France Ecliptic Plane Survey: cfeps.net Identification of Resonant Objects also comes from Gladman et al. 2008, Petit et al. 2011, Elliot et al. 2005 + CFEPS additions to that, Lykawka & Mukai 2007, Volk & Malhotra 2011, Alexandersen et al. 2014
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