The Kuiper belt (/ˈkaɪpər/ KY-pər) is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune at 30 astronomical units (AU)...
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up kuiper in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kuiper is a Dutch occupational surname meaning cooper. Common spelling variants include Kuyper, Kuipers, Kuijper...
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Kuiper Systems LLC, also known as Project Kuiper, is a subsidiary of Amazon that was established in 2019 to deploy a large satellite internet constellation...
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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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Look up Kuiper or kuiper in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kuiper is a Dutch surname. Kuiper may also refer to a number of items named after the Dutch-American...
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Trans-Neptunian object (redirect from Kuiper belt and Oort cloud)
TNOs are further divided into the classical and resonant objects of the Kuiper belt, the scattered disc and detached objects with the sednoids being the...
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A classical Kuiper belt object, also called a cubewano (/ˌkjuːbiːˈwʌnoʊ/ "QB1-o"), is a low-eccentricity Kuiper belt object (KBO) that orbits beyond Neptune...
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Solar System (section Kuiper belt)
classical Kuiper belt (that is, a Kuiper belt object not in a confirmed resonance with Neptune). Makemake is the brightest object in the Kuiper belt after...
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same unknown distribution (two-sample Kuiper test). It is named after Dutch mathematician Nicolaas Kuiper. Kuiper's test is closely related to the better-known...
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Glen Alan Kuiper (born May 20, 1963) is an American former sportscaster. He is best known for having served as the primary play-by-play announcer for the...
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