The document summarizes key information about the Asteroid Belt and Kuiper Belt. It discusses how the gravitational pulls of Mars and Jupiter influence the Asteroid Belt. It also describes tools that are used to study asteroids like space probes and telescopes. Additionally, it explains that the Kuiper Belt likely serves as the source of comets and its objects are composed primarily of icy materials like water ice.

1. The Asteroid Belt
By Chandler Moy & Samuel Freisem-
Kirov

2. Gravitational Pulls
• The Asteroid Belt is beyond the reach of Mars’s orbit
but not beyond the reach of Mars’s gravitational pull
• The gravitational pull form Jupiter prevents
protoplanetary bodies (something didn’t grow into a
planet) from growing larger than 1000 km
• The Asteroid Belt is beyond the gravitational pull of Sol
• The Asteroid Belt is affected by the Sun’s gravitational
pull only by a little bit
• The main forces on the Asteroid Belt are Jupiter and
Mars

3. Tools for Discovery and Investigation
• One main tool for discovery and investigation
is using space craft such as the Galileo space
probe
• Another main tool for discovery and
investigation would be space telescopes
• The space telescopes could be in space
(example: Hubble), or you could see an
asteroid from the ground using a regular
telescope

4. Earth Passing Asteroids
• An Earth Passing Asteroid is a large cosmic
interloper which comes close to Earth
• This happens when an asteroid breaks off from
the asteroid belt and then it makes a plunge
• An Earth Passing asteroid would cause concern
because if it would to hit Earth, the effects could
be catastrophic
• If the asteroid hit land, it could create a huge
crater and make a huge dust cloud, if it hit the
sea, it could create big tidal waves

5. Asteroid Belt Objects
• The objects that are in the Asteroid Belt are
different then any other object because they
weren’t able to form into planets
• Also, the asteroids are not able to be full
planets because of Jupiter’s gravitational pull
on the asteroids

6. The Kuiper Belt

7. H2O
• The water in this planet is in the form of ice
• It is in an ice form because it is too cold to
have regular water on it
• Also, it is thought that comets come from the
Kuiper Belt because most of the objects in the
Kuiper Belt are made out of ice

8. States of Matter and Materials
• Like I said before, most of the objects in the
Kuiper Belt are made out of ice
• Also, they are also have some rock in them as
well
• For some reason some of these icy bodies are
unusually red
• Also, for some reason, the icy bodies tend to
have dark nucleuses inside them

9. Rotation
• Many of these objects orbit around Neptune
with a 3:2 ratio
• That means every two times Neptune rotates
around the sun, those Asteroids will rotate
around Neptune 3 times
• Some of the other icy bodies orbit around
Jupiter

10. • People are interested in the icy bodies in the
Kuiper belt because they have reason to
believe that the Kuiper Belt is the source of
comets
• People believe that because of the matter that
composes of the icy bodies
• That matter is the same materials that make
comets

11. Kuiper Belt Objects
• The objects in the Kuiper Belt differ from
other objects in the solar system because they
are very icy
• Also the Kuiper Belt one of places where
comets are thought to come from

12. Bibliography
• "The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel:
Sci, Space, Tech." Strange Propeller-Like Object
Discovered in the Outer Reaches of the Kuiper
Belt. The Daily Galaxy, 4 Oct. 2011. Web. 18
Apr.2012.<http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_w
eblog/2011/10/-weird-propeller-shaped-
object-discovered-in-the-outer-reaches-of-
the-kuiper-belt.html>.

13. Bibliography
• Arnett, Bill. "The Kuiper BeltandThe Oort
Cloud." Kuiper-Oort. Nine Planets, 18 Mar.
2007. Web. 17 Apr. 2012.
<http://nineplanets.org/kboc.html>.
• Jewitt, David. "Kuiper Belt." UCLA. Comet,
2009. Web. 18 Apr. 2012.
<http://www2.ess.ucla.edu/~jewitt/kb.html>.

14. Bibliography cont.
• "Kuiper Belt Objects." Science Photo Library.
Science Photo Library. Web. 30 Apr. 2012.
<http://www.sciencephoto.com/media/32768
9/enlarge>.
• Fuller, John. "How Asteroid Belts Work."
HowStuffWorks. Web. 30 Apr. 2012.
<http://www.howstuffworks.com/asteroid-
belt.htm>.

15. The End