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Where do the Jupiter family comets come from?:
The recently discovered Kuiper Belt
The recently discovered Kuiper Belt
•Material beyond Neptune never ejected into the Oort cloud
•Pluto and Charon the biggest members – now also Quarar, Sedna
•Very hard to detect because very faint
–far from the sun so little illumination
–comets not active at that distance
–Hubble and new large telescopes have recently detected ~100
