KBO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does KBO mean? 

• KBO (noun)
  The noun KBO has 1 sense:

1. any of many minor planets in the Kuiper belt outside the orbit of Neptune at the edge of the solar system

  Familiarity information: KBO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KBO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of many minor planets in the Kuiper belt outside the orbit of Neptune at the edge of the solar system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

KBO; Kuiper belt object

Hypernyms ("KBO" is a kind of...):

minor planet; planetoid (any of numerous small celestial bodies that move around the sun)

 Context examples 

The ancient KBO, which is more than four billion miles (6.5 billion kilometers) from Earth, passed in front of a star on July 17, 2017.

(New Horizons' Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting, NASA)

The presence of these materials had never before been confirmed in a KBO, and they strongly suggest that 2004 EW95 formed in the inner Solar System.

(Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System, ESO)

Taken with the spacecraft’s Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on April 7-8 from a distance of about 69 million miles (111 million kilometers), the images shatter New Horizons’ own record for the closest-ever views of this KBO in November 2015, when New Horizons detected JR1 from 170 million miles (280 million kilometers) away.

(New Horizons Collects First Science on a Post-Pluto Object, NASA)

New Horizons scientists sort through new data gathered on the distant Kuiper Belt object (KBO) 2014 MU69, which the spacecraft will fly past on Jan. 1, 2019.

(New Horizons' Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting, NASA)

Warming up for a possible extended mission as it speeds through deep space, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has now twice observed 1994 JR1, a 90-mile-wide (145-kilometer-wide) Kuiper Belt object (KBO) orbiting more than 3 billion miles (5 billion kilometers) from the sun.

(New Horizons Collects First Science on a Post-Pluto Object, NASA)