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KBOKuiper Belt Object
KBOKorean Baseball Organization
KBOKeep Buggering On (Winston Churchill)
KBOKnowledge Based Organization
KBOKiteboard Open (The Netherlands)
KBOKnuth-Bendix Order
KBOKey Business Objective
KBOKnowledge-Business Outsourcing
KBOKnowledge Based Object
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Haumea is already the only Kuiper Belt object known to be part of a collisional family--other chunks, besides the moons, are known to have been created when a large impactor, perhaps 500 kilometers in diameter, struck the once-larger dwarf planet in the distant past, Brown says.
Moons are icy all the way through: bodies likely chipped from Haumea ... by Cowen, Ron / Science News
The furthest planet orbits just inside a disk of dusty debris, similar to that produced by the comets of the Kuiper Belt objects of our solar system.
First direct images of multi-planet system around a normal star ... by Asian News International
The International Astronomical Union adopted this definition in 2006 following the discovery in 2003 of Eris, a Kuiper Belt object larger than Pluto.
Cambridge Illustrated Dictionary of Astronomy by Internet Bookwatch
 
 
 
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