We are eager to use the occultation technique to probe for atmospheres around large Kuiper belt objects.

Pluto is just the brightest of the many objects in the Kuiper Belt. It's a fossil relic of the formation of our solar system.

Technique is only the beginning not the end in learning art.

It's something we'll have to probe.

We know this technique works in the test tube, in a fish tank and a large tank. This is the big test to see if it works in a real river.

We think this is a tight, narrow ring of rocky objects similar to those in our asteroid belt, except this ring is five AU from its star, instead of two-to-three AU, the distance between our asteroid belt and the sun.