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The region of the ] '''beyond Neptune''' contains sparse populations of small icy objects. These include the ], with its well-known member ], and other ]s including ] and ]. Further out is the ], a group which includes ], the largest known ], and even more distant ]s such as ].

In the past, the use of this area of the solar system as a setting for ] has been limited to ] and completely ]. However, as more ]s have been discovered and the region has become better understood by astronomers, works of fiction have begun to reflect the region more extensively and realistically.

== Literature ==

* '']'' (2008), novel by ]. An intelligent robot in the service of a shadowy organisation travels throughout the Solar System, with the plot climax on Eris.

*In '']'' by ] and ], ] is settled by puritanical prudes.

* '']'' (1997), by ], features a mission to mine the Kuiper belt for water to terraform Venus.

== Film and television ==
* In "The Griffin Equivalency", the fourth episode of the second season of '']'', ] is included in '']'' magazine's "30 Under 30 to watch" list for his discovery of a trans-Neptunian object beyond the Kuiper belt. Officially designated {{mp|2008 NQ|17}}, Raj had nicknamed the body "] ]".<ref name="BigBang">{{cite episode|title=The Griffin Equivalency|series=The Big Bang Theory|serieslink=The Big Bang Theory|airdate=October 13, 2008|season=2|number=4}}</ref> The object is itself fictional, and no TNO has been assigned that designation.

== Comics and anime ==
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== Games ==
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== Music ==
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== See also ==
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== References ==
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