Geoffrey Orbegoso
The Kuiper Belt A Sonic Depiction
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Release date: July 2010
Play album
1
Kuiper Belt Objects
Introductory piece which describes the many small, icy bodies orbiting the sun beyond Neptune. Interspersed throughout are excerpts taken from each of the other kuiper belt "songs".
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1:36
2
Makemake
Chief god of the bird cult in Easter Island Mythology, and third plutoid discovered in the kuiper belt.
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3:14
3
Drac
It "walks on walls"; nickname of the asteroid in the Kuiper Belt known for its unusual highly inclined, retrograde orbit. Oh, and don't forget to put your garlic necklace on for this one.
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4:07
4
Antipholus and Antipholus
Nearly identical binary asteroids tethered to each other in the kuiper belt.
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6:42
5
Ixion
A king in Greek Mythology whom Zeus ordered bound to a burning, spinning wheel for eternity.
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4:01
6
Pluto And Its Moons
Depicts the most famous kuiper belt object, Pluto, and its known moons: Charon, Nix, and Hydra.
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5:10
7
Eris
The largest dwarf planet in our solar system, and whose discovery bumped Pluto from planetary status; named appropriately after the Greek Goddess of strife and discord.
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2:23
8
Haumea
An ethereal piece which describes the formation of the potato-shaped dwarf planet in the kuiper belt.
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4:20
9
Varuna
One of the largest of the kuiper belt objects discovered so far, named after the Hindu God of the Sky and Ocean.
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4:22
10
Quaoar
Creation deity of the Tongva Native Americans, who sang and danced the world into existence.
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4:28