The Kuiper belt often called the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, is a section of the Solar System. It consists mainly of small bodies and remains from the Solar System's formation. The Kuiper belt is composed mostly of frozen ices such as methane, ammonia, and water.
In 1987, astronomer David Jewitt worked with Jane Luu on the discovery of the Kuiper Belt. They used telescopes at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. After five years of searching, on August 30, 1992, Jewitt and Luu declared the "Discovery of the candidate Kuiper belt object."
The Kuiper belt stretches from roughly 30 to 55 AU. composed of ices; a mixture of light hydrocarbons (such as methane), ammonia, and water ice. The temperature on the Kuiper Belt is on average 50K.
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