Mortuus homo est natalis…

Mortuus homo est natalis – On this day, February 26, 1880 Kenneth Edgeworth, Irish astronomer, was born. Edgeworth is best known for proposing the existence of a disc of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune in the 1930s. Observations later confirmed the existence of the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt in 1992. Today those distant solar system bodies including Pluto, Eris, and Makemake, are grouped into the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, or Kuiper belt.