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Questions about the circumstellar disk orbiting in the outer Solar System, beyond the orbit of Neptune.

The Kuiper belt is a disk-shaped belt of icy debris orbiting in the outer solar system, lying beyond the orbit of Neptune and extending to a distance of about 50 astronomical units, containing thousands of small icy bodies, some of which are on highly elliptical orbits, periodically visiting the inner solar system as comets.