Gerard Kuiper information

Gerard Peter Kuiper (/ˈkaɪpər/ KY-pər; born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper, Dutch: [ˈɣɛrɪt ˈpitər ˈkœypər]; 7 December 1905 – 23 December 1973) was a Dutch-American...

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...

The Gerard P. Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO) was a national facility operated by NASA to support research in infrared astronomy. The observation platform...

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...

studies, he used the summer months to work with planetary scientist Gerard Kuiper, who was his dissertation director, as well as physicist George Gamow...

overcontact binary. The term "contact binary" was introduced by astronomer Gerard Kuiper in 1941. Almost all known contact binary systems are eclipsing binaries;...

Gerard Kuiper (1905–1973), Dutch-American astronomer after whom the Kuiper belt was named Glen Kuiper (born 1963) American broadcaster Hennie Kuiper (born...

zoologist Gerard de Kremer (1512–1594), Flemish cartographer, geographer and cosmographer Gerard Kuiper (1905–1973), Dutch–American astronomer Gerard Labuda...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Discovery William Herschel Gerard Kuiper James L. Elliot William Lassell General Uranus-crossing minor planets Co-orbitals Trojans 2011 QF99 2014 YX49...

planetary status, only officially losing it in 2006. In the 1950s, Gerard Kuiper published papers on the origin of the asteroids. He recognised that...

of Schagen, 1894–1900 Gerard Kuiper (1905 in Tuitjenhorn – 1973) a Dutch–American astronomer; eponymous namesake of the Kuiper belt Joop Klant (1915 in...

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;...

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...

Solar System. Princeton University Press. p. 141. ISBN 978-1400852970. Kuiper, Gerard P. (August 1950). "The Diameter of Pluto". Publications of the Astronomical...

main energy-producing nuclear reactions that power the Sun. 1944 – Gerard Kuiper discovers that the satellite Titan has a substantial atmosphere. 1946 –...

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...

Glacier after Gerard Kuiper, the Dutch-American astronomer who in 1948 discovered Miranda, one of the satellites of the planet Uranus. "Kuiper Scarp". Geographic...