So I was just watching a naked science episode on discovery about

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So I was just watching a naked science episode on discovery about pluto and how some scientists believe that it came from the hyperbelt. Now I would just like to clarify, does the hyperbelt surround our solarsystem? Like a ring around saturn? Or is the entire solar system surrounded by it? Like one of those drumbstick icecreams that have nuts in the middle ( the nuts being the planets) I ask this because the show did really clarify.
 
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