Kuiper
Americannoun
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"You can't stop, because it takes so long to develop new varieties," says Stefan Kuiper, the company's breeding manager.
From BBC • May 14, 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
Leo, formerly known as Project Kuiper, was revealed just weeks before Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched the first 60 satellites used for its Starlink satellite megaconstellation in May 2019.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 12, 2026
This is more than three times the distance of the Kuiper Belt from the sun in our solar system.
From Science Daily • Jan. 7, 2026
The only gas known unambiguously to be present was methane, CH4, discovered by G. P. Kuiper.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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