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Tour the Solar SystemModule 8Dwarf Planets and Outer Reservoirs
Module 8 / Lesson 23 of 3030 min
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What lives beyond Neptune, and who wanders inward?

How do Kuiper Belt objects and Centaurs connect stable outer reservoirs with shorter-lived giant-planet-crossing paths?

Read the outer solar system as interacting populations rather than a row of isolated objects.

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune with a small Centaur body crossing between giant-planet orbits.
Vastward artistic reconstruction. Planet sizes, distances, orbit paths, and Centaur brightness are not to scale.

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