KUIPER

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• KUIPER (noun)
  The noun KUIPER has 1 sense:

1. 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)

  Familiarity information: KUIPER used as a noun is very rare.

• KUIPER (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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Gerard Kuiper; Gerard Peter Kuiper; Kuiper

Instance hypernyms:

astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)

 Context examples 

The ring revolves around Haumea, located in the so-called Kuiper Belt.

(Brazil astronomers discover ring around dwarf planet near Pluto, Agência Brasil)

Planet Nine's orbital influence would explain why these bodies from the distant Kuiper Belt end up "polluting" the inner Kuiper Belt.

(The Super-Earth that Came Home for Dinner, NASA)

Beyond the orbit of Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, which is made up of small bodies left over from the formation of the solar system.

(Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’, University of Cambridge)

Leftover debris remains in regions of our own solar system like the Kuiper Belt, beyond Neptune, or the Oort Cloud, far past Pluto.

(Comet Provides New Clues to Origins of Earth's Oceans, NASA)

Peering to the outskirts of our solar system, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a small, dark moon orbiting Makemake, the second brightest icy dwarf planet — after Pluto — in the Kuiper Belt.

(Hubble Discovers Moon Orbiting the Dwarf Planet Makemake, NASA)

This could have happened when the comet first entered the Solar System from the Kuiper Belt, or on subsequent orbits around the Sun.

(Rosetta Comet May Be a Contact Binary, NASA)

Many billions of years ago, Neptune captured the large moon Triton from the Kuiper Belt, a large region of icy and rocky objects beyond the orbit of Neptune.

(Tiny Neptune Moon Spotted by Hubble May Have Broken from Larger Moon, NASA)

The shape of MU69 is truly provocative, and could mean another first for New Horizons going to a binary object in the Kuiper Belt.

(New Horizons' Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting, NASA)

Another suggested several thin debris disks similar to our system, which has an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and the Kuiper Belt of mostly icy objects beyond the dwarf planet Pluto.

(New Observation of Nearby Star System Confirms Similarity to Ours, VOA)

This belt is estimated to have a temperature of about –230 degrees Celsius, as cold as that of the Kuiper Belt in the outer Solar System.

(ALMA Discovers Cold Dust Around Nearest Star, ESO)