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Kuiper Belt Population Established

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Chronological records

1993

David Jewitt1993

Science / Astronomy

Additional discoveries following 1992 QB1 demonstrate that a substantial population of small worlds occupies the region beyond Neptune.

Names involved

David Jewitt

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