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Kuiper Belt may be born of collisions

Diversity of objects and frequency of pairs not easily accounted for by standard models of planet formation.

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Lovett, R. Kuiper Belt may be born of collisions. Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.522

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