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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may have originated in the region. The Kuiper belt is named in honor of the Dutch astronomer Gerard Kuiper, who conjectured the existence of the belt...
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The Gerard P. Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO) was a national facility operated by NASA to support research in infrared astronomy. The observation platform...
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some minor wear. It was named after Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper in 1976. Kuiper was the Project Scientist for the Ranger program. This crater...
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Nereid (moon) (category Discoveries by Gerard Kuiper)
moon of Neptune to be discovered, by Gerard Kuiper in 1949. Nereid was discovered on 1 May 1949 by Gerard P. Kuiper using photographic plates taken with...
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The Gerard P. Kuiper Prize is awarded annually by the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society for outstanding lifetime achievement...
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discovered in 1851 by William Lassell (Ariel and Umbriel) and in 1948 by Gerard Kuiper (Miranda). These five may be in hydrostatic equilibrium. The remaining...
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named after the Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper: Kuiper (lunar crater), located in the Mare Cognitum Kuiper (Martian crater), an impact crater in...
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Gerard Kuiper (1905–1973), Dutch-American astronomer after whom the Kuiper belt was named Glen Kuiper (born 1963) American broadcaster Hennie Kuiper (born...
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overcontact binary. The term "contact binary" was introduced by astronomer Gerard Kuiper in 1941. Almost all known contact binary systems are eclipsing binaries;...
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Miranda (moon) (category Discoveries by Gerard Kuiper)
and innermost of Uranus's five round satellites. It was discovered by Gerard Kuiper on 16 February 1948 at McDonald Observatory in Texas, and named after...
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studies, he used the summer months to work with planetary scientist Gerard Kuiper, who was his dissertation director, as well as physicist George Gamow...
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zoologist Gerard de Kremer (1512–1594), Flemish cartographer, geographer and cosmographer Gerard Kuiper (1905–1973), Dutch–American astronomer Gerard Labuda...
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appear to lie below the main sequence. The term "subdwarf" was coined by Gerard Kuiper in 1939, to refer to a series of stars with anomalous spectra that were...
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Unser Mond, Bremen, 1936. Hugh P. Wilkins, 300-inch Moon map, 1951. Gerard Kuiper et al., Photographic Lunar Atlas, Chicago, 1960. Ewen A. Whitaker et...
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kilometers in diameter and was named after Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper in 1976. It is one of only 2 Mercurian craters which are named not after...
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telescope was built in the late 1960s. Originally part of research begun by Gerard Kuiper of the University of Arizona, the site has expanded into the world's...
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lunar surface. Among the members of the research team were astronomer Gerard Kuiper and his doctoral student Carl Sagan. Sagan was responsible for the mathematical...
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planetary status, only officially losing it in 2006. In the 1950s, Gerard Kuiper published papers on the origin of the asteroids. He recognised that...
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Discovery William Herschel Gerard Kuiper James L. Elliot William Lassell General Uranus-crossing minor planets Co-orbitals Trojans 2011 QF99 2014 YX49...
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onto the surface of a white globe. This is how William K. Hartmann and Gerard Kuiper discovered the ring shape of Montes Rook in the early 1960s. Several...
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of Schagen, 1894–1900 Gerard Kuiper (1905 in Tuitjenhorn – 1973) a Dutch–American astronomer; eponymous namesake of the Kuiper belt Joop Klant (1915 in...
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ring bullseye. During the 1960s, rectified images of Mare Orientale by Gerard Kuiper at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory gave rise to the notion of it...
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found to be arid with only trace amounts of oxygen and water. In 1947, Gerard Kuiper showed that the thin Martian atmosphere contained extensive carbon dioxide;...
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history. The first attempt to measure the diameter of Triton was made by Gerard Kuiper in 1954. He obtained a value of 3,800 km. Subsequent measurement attempts...
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Julio Ángel Fernández (section Kuiper belt)
of the Kuiper belt. David Jewitt, who discovered the belt, believes that Fernández deserves more credit than anyone else, including Gerard Kuiper, for predicting...
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Glacier after Gerard Kuiper, the Dutch-American astronomer who in 1948 discovered Miranda, one of the satellites of the planet Uranus. "Kuiper Scarp". Geographic...
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were preparing to hand over to the Soviet Union. The Dutch astronomer Gerard Kuiper from the Alsos Mission fetched Planck in a jeep and brought him to Göttingen...
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main energy-producing nuclear reactions that power the Sun. 1944 – Gerard Kuiper discovers that the satellite Titan has a substantial atmosphere. 1946 –...
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Chandrasekhar met Gerard Kuiper, a noted Dutch astrophysical observationalist who was then a leading authority on white dwarfs. Kuiper had recently been...
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