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The 31 pages that link to Kuiper belt, each with the reason it gives.

• CometRelated: Many short-period comets are linked to objects scattered from this reservoir.

• NeptuneRelated: Neptune’s gravity shapes objects in this nearby outer Solar System region.

• PlutoNarrower topic: Pluto is one of its best-known and largest members.

• Solar SystemBroader topic: Its population retains clues to how the outer planets migrated and scattered primordial material.

• Nice modelRelated: Its structure and populations preserve clues to Neptune’s migration.

• OccultationNarrower topic: Occultations can detect small Kuiper belt objects that are too faint to observe directly.

• Dwarf planetNarrower topic: Discoveries of large Kuiper belt objects expanded the known population beyond Pluto.

• Solar System formationRelated: Its distant icy population preserves material from the outer disk.

• Oort cloudCompared with: Unlike the distant, roughly spherical cloud, this reservoir occupies the planetary plane beyond Neptune.

• New HorizonsNarrower topic: New Horizons became the first mission to explore objects in this distant region up close.

• Trans-Neptunian objectBroader topic: Its populations make up the best-known concentration of trans-Neptunian objects.

• Jupiter-family cometNarrower topic: It is the broader reservoir from which scattered objects can ultimately supply these comets.

• Minor planetBroader topic: Many trans-Neptunian minor planets orbit within this distant population.

• CharonNarrower topic: Pluto and Charon belong to this distant population of icy worlds.

• Clyde TombaughNarrower topic: Pluto’s place in this population changed how astronomers understood its classification.

• Comet nucleusRelated: Many short-period comet nuclei are supplied from this distant reservoir.

• Orbital migrationRelated: Its structure preserves clues to Neptune's outward migration.

• Planet NineCompared with: The known Kuiper belt is distinct from the much more distant region where Planet Nine is proposed to orbit.

• HaumeaNarrower topic: Haumea occupies this distant population of icy Solar System objects.

• Gerard KuiperCompared with: The region was named for Kuiper, although he did not predict it in the modern sense.

• ArrokothNarrower topic: Arrokoth is a member of this distant population.

• Scattered discCompared with: Its more stable classical population contrasts with the scattered disc’s strongly perturbed orbits.

• Moons of NeptuneRelated: Triton may have begun as a Kuiper belt object before becoming Neptune’s moon.

• IAU definition of planetRelated: The belt revealed that Pluto is one member of a broader population of orbit-sharing objects.

• Moons of HaumeaNarrower topic: Haumea’s environment provides the broader setting for its collisional and orbital history.

• Moons of PlutoNarrower topic: Pluto and its moons formed and evolved within this distant population of icy objects.

• Discovery and exploration of the Solar SystemBroader topic: Its discovery established that the outer Solar System holds a vast population beyond the major planets.

• Formation and evolution of the Solar SystemBroader topic: Its population retains clues to planetary migration and the outer disk.

• Jane LuuNarrower topic: The discovery of 1992 QB1 provided the first clear evidence for this population.

• Minor-planet moonNarrower topic: Its many binaries raise questions about how outer Solar System moons formed and survived.

• Planets beyond NeptuneRelated: Its discovery revealed a population of distant objects that reframed searches for outer planets.