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Kuiper

American  
[kahy-per] / ˈkaɪ pər /

noun

  1. Gerard Peter, 1905–73, U.S. astronomer, born in the Netherlands.


Example Sentences

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This is more than three times the distance of the Kuiper Belt from the sun in our solar system.

From Science Daily

After billions of years, two major planetesimal belts remain: the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and the Kuiper belt beyond the giant planets.

From Science Daily

“We continue to see the potential for upside across Amazon’s business segments including e-commerce, cloud, advertising, and Kuiper / low earth orbit satellites,” he wrote.

From Barron's

Many of the benefits of Amazon’s capital expenditures in AWS, e-commerce, advertising and its satellite initiative Project Kuiper haven’t yet been realized, Ju wrote in a Tuesday note, calling the stock “a coiled spring.”

From MarketWatch

Kuiper has had more than 100 of them launched so far this year.

From The Wall Street Journal