Kuiper Belt

The Kuiper Belt is an area of space way out beyond Neptune and the other planets. It's like the Asteroid Belt, but A LOT BIGGER. It's at least... 20 times wider and maybe... even up to 200 times as massive! The asteroids in the Asteroid Belt are made of rock and metal and stuff like that, but the asteroids in the Kuiper Belt are made of frozen chemical elements such as water, ammonia, and methane. There are 3 dwarf planets that make their homes in the Kuiper Belt- Pluto, Haumea, and Makemake. Things in the Kuiper Belt are often called TNOs, or trans-Neptunian objects.