Beyond Neptune's orbit is the Kuiper Belt. It's a high traffic area, to say the least. Several hundred thousand KPOs orbit the Sun there. A KPO, which stands for Kuiper Belt Object, is
larger than 20 miles across. Pluto is 1,473 miles in diameter and also orbits the Sun in the
Kuiper Belt. Pluto is a dwarf planet because it's much smaller than a planet. Even though
Pluto is smaller than Earth's moon, it has five moons of its own. It takes Pluto 248 years to
orbit the Sun.
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According to the text, the Kuiper Belt
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is 20 miles across.
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is one of Neptune's rings.
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is an area with many small objects that orbit the sun.
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has five moons that take over 248 to orbit the sun.
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