How does the Kuiper belt differ from the asteroid belt?

Ever wondered the difference? The Asteroid Belt, shown above, consists of hundreds of thousands of rocks, with all kinds of different shapes, ranging in size from the Dwarf Planet Ceres at 950 Km in Diameter, down to small bits the size of dust particles. It lies between Mars and Jupiter. read more

The Asteroid Belt, shown above, consists of hundreds of thousands of rocks, with all kinds of different shapes, ranging in size from the Dwarf Planet Ceres at 950 Km in Diameter, down to small bits the size of dust particles. read more

Kuiper belt is a region of the solar system extending beyond the orbit of Neptune, at 30AU to 50AU from the sun containing large chunks of ice. It mainly consists of frozen bodies containing water, methane, and ammonia. Those are similar to asteroid, but differ in composition where asteroid are made of rocky and metallic substances. read more

These are similar, but the Kuiper Belt is bigger and farther from the sun. The Asteroid Belt is between Mars and Jupiter. The Kuiper Belt is from the end of the planets' orbit to about 55 astronomical units from the sun. That's about 20 times as wide as the Asteroid Belt. read more