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Kuiper

American  
[kahy-per] / ˈkaɪ pər /

noun

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


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Amazon also plans to spend on its robotics and fulfillment technology as well as its satellite communications business, known as Project Kuiper.

From MarketWatch Jun. 10, 2026

Similarly, many objects in the Kuiper Belt show signs of their orbits being affected by more than just the Sun’s gravity.

From Science Daily Jun. 9, 2026

"In the beginning, everybody had the seedlings, so the crossing and then the seed pods give plants, but we at Floricultura introduced meristems," Stefan Kuiper tells me.

From BBC May 14, 2026

The giant disk stretches nearly 400 billion miles across, making it about 40 times wider than our solar system out to the Kuiper Belt.

From Science Daily May 12, 2026

Only a few astronomers, notably Gerard Kuiper, the Dutch-born astronomer for whom the Kuiper belt of comets is named, took any interest in the solar system at all.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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