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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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Some 2,000 objects are known to orbit in the area near Pluto, which is now called the Kuiper Belt (S&T: Feb.

Beyond the Kuiper belt

Washington, Oct 6 (ANI): Challenging popular theory about how part of our solar system formed, a University of Victoria PhD student has found evidence that the planet Neptune can't have knocked a collection of planetoids known as the Cold Classical Kuiper Belt to its current location at the edge of the solar system.

Planet Neptune didn't knock out Cold Classical Kuiper Belt

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.

Rocky finding: evidence of extrasolar asteroid belt

This object appeared in the Kuiper Belt, a region of space just beyond the planet Neptune (see SW 10/19/98).

Teen Discovery

This biography recounts the life and career of Dutch American astronomer Gerard Kuiper (1905-1973), who created a new discipline called planetary science.

Gerard P. Kuiper and the Rise of Modern Planetary Science

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