The Kuiper Belt is a ........

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The Kuiper Belt is a

doughnut-shaped ring of icy objects around the Sunextending just beyond the orbit of Neptune

Extrapolation of the Van Allen Radiation Belt containing the largest number of asteroids in the solar system

Hemispherical region between Earth and Venus where the NASA has been sending a large number of interplanetary missions

None of the above

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Explanation:

Beyond the gas giant Neptune lies a region of space filled with icy bodies. Known as the Kuiper Belt, this chilly expanse holds trillions of objects, remnants of the early solar system.
Short-period comets (which take less than 200 years to orbit the Sun) originate in the Kuiper Belt.

The first mission to explore the Kuiper Belt is New Horizons. It flew past Pluto in 2015 and is on its way to explore another Kuiper Belt world.