Gerard Kuiper
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Gerard Peter Kuiper was a Dutch astronomer, planetary scientist, selenographer, author and professor. The Kuiper belt is named after him.
Kuiper in 1964
Experimenters Raymond Heacock, Kuiper, and Ewen Whitaker examine Ranger 7 pictures at the Flight Control Center
Eugene Shoemaker and Kuiper answer newsmen's questions at the Interim Scientific Results Conference of the Ranger program.
Gerard P. Kuiper Space Sciences building at the University of Arizona
Kuiper belt
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The Kuiper belt is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune at 30 astronomical units to approximately 50 AU from the Sun. It is similar to the asteroid belt,
Gerard Kuiper
…Gerrit Pieter Kuiper, Dutch: ; 7 December 1905 – 23 December 1973) was a Dutch astronomer, planetary scientist, selenographer, author and professor. The Kuiper belt is named after him. Kuiper is considered by many to be the father of modern planetary science…
Pluto and Charon in false color
In 1980, astronomer Julio Fernandez predicted the existence of a belt. It has been said that because the words "Kuiper" and "comet belt" appeared in the opening sentence of Fernandez's paper, this hypothetical region was referred to as the "Kuiper belt".
Telescopes atop Mauna Kea. The Kuiper belt was discovered with UH88, which is the fourth from the left