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Kuiper

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Noun1.Kuiper - 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)


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It's possible, Agnor suggests, that Triton used to be part of the Kuiper belt, a wide band of icy bodies beyond Neptune's orbit.
Most previously observed disks have been cool and lie much farther from their parent stars, in the region that corresponds in the solar system to the locale of Pluto and the reservoir of comets known as the Kuiper belt.
In response to these aggressive tactics, says Dean Kuipers, author of Burning Rainbow Farm (Bloomsbury), Crosslin "just snapped.
 
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