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KUIPER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States astronomer (born in the Netherlands) who studied the solar system and suggested in 1951 that there is a belt of comet-like debris at the edge of the solar system (1905-1973)
Synonyms:
Gerard Kuiper; Gerard Peter Kuiper; Kuiper
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Instance hypernyms:
astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)
Context examples:
This curious object likely formed in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and has been flung billions of kilometres from its origin to its current home in the Kuiper Belt.
(Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System, ESO)
Similar to Voyager 1 and 2's historic observations, New Horizons also is on a path toward potential discoveries in the Kuiper Belt, which is a disc-shaped region of icy objects past the orbit of Neptune, and other unexplored realms of the outer solar system and beyond.
(NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit, NASA)
Warming up for a possible extended mission as it speeds through deep space, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has now twice observed 1994 JR1, a 90-mile-wide (145-kilometer-wide) Kuiper Belt object (KBO) orbiting more than 3 billion miles (5 billion kilometers) from the sun.
(New Horizons Collects First Science on a Post-Pluto Object, NASA)
This would make the moon similar to comets and other Kuiper Belt Objects, many of which are covered with very dark material.
(Hubble Discovers Moon Orbiting the Dwarf Planet Makemake, NASA)
The ratio of regular to heavy water was not linked to the origin of the comets - whether they were from the Oort Cloud or the Kuiper Belt.
(Comet Provides New Clues to Origins of Earth's Oceans, NASA)
Neptune and the other giant planets gravitationally influence the objects in the Kuiper Belt and beyond, collectively known as trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), which encircle the Sun on nearly-circular paths from almost all directions.
(Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’, University of Cambridge)
The last telltale sign of Planet Nine's presence involves the solar system's contrarians: objects from the Kuiper Belt that orbit in the opposite direction from everything else in the solar system.
(The Super-Earth that Came Home for Dinner, NASA)
New Horizons scientists sort through new data gathered on the distant Kuiper Belt object (KBO) 2014 MU69, which the spacecraft will fly past on Jan. 1, 2019.
(New Horizons' Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting, NASA)
An international team of astronomers found that the unusual Kuiper Belt Object 2004 EW95 is a carbon-rich asteroid, the first of its kind to be confirmed in the cold outer reaches of the Solar System.
(Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System, ESO)
The Kuiper Belt is a vast reservoir of leftover frozen material from the construction of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago and home to several dwarf planets.
(Hubble Discovers Moon Orbiting the Dwarf Planet Makemake, NASA)
