The Kuiper belt (/ˈkaɪpər/ KY-pər) is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune at 30 astronomical units (AU)...
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up kuiper in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kuiper is a Dutch occupational surname meaning cooper. Common spelling variants include Kuyper, Kuipers, Kuijper...
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Kuiper Systems LLC, also known as Project Kuiper, is a subsidiary of Amazon that was established in 2019 to deploy a large satellite internet constellation...
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Gerard Peter Kuiper (/ˈkaɪpər/ KY-pər; born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper, Dutch: [ˈɣɛrɪt ˈpitər ˈkœypər]; 7 December 1905 – 23 December 1973) was a Dutch-American...
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Look up Kuiper or kuiper in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kuiper is a Dutch surname. Kuiper may also refer to a number of items named after the Dutch-American...
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A classical Kuiper belt object, also called a cubewano (/ˌkjuːbiːˈwʌnoʊ/ "QB1-o"), is a low-eccentricity Kuiper belt object (KBO) that orbits beyond Neptune...
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Trans-Neptunian object (redirect from Kuiper belt and Oort cloud)
TNOs are further divided into the classical and resonant objects of the Kuiper belt, the scattered disc and detached objects with the sednoids being the...
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Solar System (section Kuiper belt)
classical Kuiper belt (that is, a Kuiper belt object not in a confirmed resonance with Neptune). Makemake is the brightest object in the Kuiper belt after...
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Glen Alan Kuiper (born May 20, 1963) is an American former sportscaster. He is best known for having served as the primary play-by-play announcer for the...
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Duane Eugene Kuiper (born June 19, 1950), nicknamed "Kuip", is an American sportscaster and former professional baseball player. As a player, he was a...
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H. Kuipers (1919–2012), Dutch linguist Alice Kuipers (born 1979), British-Canadian author André Kuipers (born 1958), Dutch astronaut Bas Kuipers (born...
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Kuiper (/ˈkaɪpər/ KY-pər) is a small lunar impact crater in a relatively featureless part of the Mare Cognitum. It is a circular, cup-shaped feature with...
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same unknown distribution (two-sample Kuiper test). It is named after Dutch mathematician Nicolaas Kuiper. Kuiper's test is closely related to the better-known...
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Taco Esgo Kuiper (11 November 1941 in Batavia, Dutch East Indies – 24 September 2004 in Johannesburg, South Africa) was an investigative journalist and...
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called the Kuiper belt, but its outer limits reach much farther away from the Sun and farther above and below the ecliptic than the Kuiper belt proper...
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486958 Arrokoth (redirect from Ultima Thule (kuiper belt object))
formerly nicknamed Ultima Thule) is a trans-Neptunian object located in the Kuiper belt. Arrokoth became the farthest and most primitive object in the Solar...
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Peter Kuiper (30 March 1929 – 28 September 2007) was a German actor of film, theatre and television. He died in Berlin from undisclosed causes in 2007...
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New Horizons (section Kuiper belt object mission)
in 2015, and a secondary mission to fly by and study one or more other Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) in the decade to follow, which became a mission to 486958...
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Adrian Paul Kuiper (born 24 August 1959) is a former South African international cricketer who played in one international Test match and 25 One Day Internationals...
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Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest...
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Pieter Jan Cornelis "Piet" Kuiper (30 July 1934 – 10 December 2017) was a Dutch botanist. He was professor of plant physiology at the University of Groningen...
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Nash embedding theorems (redirect from Nash-Kuiper theorem)
method was modified by Nicolaas Kuiper to obtain the theorem above. The isometric embeddings produced by the Nash–Kuiper theorem are often considered counterintuitive...
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Oort cloud is more than a thousand times as distant from the Sun as the Kuiper belt, the scattered disc and the detached objects—three nearer reservoirs...
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Michael Jan Hugo Kuiper (born June 7, 1989) is a Dutch mixed martial artist who most recently competed in the Light Heavyweight division. A professional...
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Rienk Bouke Kuiper (31 January 1886 – 22 April 1966) was a pastor and professor of systematic theology. Kuiper served as President of Calvin College between...
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Nick Kuiper (born 12 February 1982) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. Kuiper began his professional career in 2004 after signing...
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Pluto Kuiper Express was an interplanetary space probe that was proposed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) scientists and engineers and under development...
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Jordy Kuiper (born 2 June 1995) is a Dutch basketball player who plays for Donar of the BNXT League. Standing at 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in), he plays as power...
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List of trans-Neptunian objects (redirect from List of Kuiper belt objects)
orbit has a semi-major axis greater than 30.1 astronomical units (AU). The Kuiper belt, scattered disk, and Oort cloud are three conventional divisions of...
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Hendrik Kuiper (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkœypər]; 28 June 1920 – 12 December 1994) was a Dutch mathematician, known for Kuiper's test and proving Kuiper's theorem...
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