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Kuiper is a Dutch occupational surname meaning cooper. Common spelling variants include Kuyper, Kuipers, Kuijper, Kuijpers, Kuypers, and De Kuyper. Notable people with the name include:
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)...
up kuiper in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kuiper is a Dutch occupational surname meaning cooper. Common spelling variants include Kuyper, Kuipers, Kuijper...
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...
Gerard Peter Kuiper (/ˈkaɪpər/ KY-pər; born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper, Dutch: [ˈɣɛrɪt ˈpitər ˈkœypər]; 7 December 1905 – 23 December 1973) was a Dutch-American...
Duane Eugene Kuiper (born June 19, 1950), nicknamed "Kuip", is an American sportscaster and former professional baseball player. As a player, he was a...
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...
H. Kuipers (1919–2012), Dutch linguist Alice Kuipers (born 1979), British-Canadian author André Kuipers (born 1958), Dutch astronaut Bas Kuipers (born...
A classical Kuiper belt object, also called a cubewano (/ˌkjuːbiːˈwʌnoʊ/ "QB1-o"), is a low-eccentricity Kuiper belt object (KBO) that orbits beyond Neptune...
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...
called the Kuiper belt, but its outer limits reach much farther away from the Sun and farther above and below the ecliptic than the Kuiper belt proper...
formerly nicknamed Ultima Thule) is a trans-Neptunian object located in the Kuiper belt. Arrokoth became the farthest and most primitive object in the Solar...
Peter Kuiper (30 March 1929 – 28 September 2007) was a German actor of film, theatre and television. He died in Berlin from undisclosed causes in 2007...
Nick Kuiper (born 12 February 1982) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. Kuiper began his professional career in 2004 after signing...
Martijn Kuiper (born November 26, 1970) is a Dutch actor. He has played roles in the Spanish television. In 2016 he won the award for best actor in the...
Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest...
Protestant Reformation. Kuiper was born in Oud-Loosdrecht in the Netherlands on July 16, 1877, to Reverend Klaas Kuiper and Maaike Kuiper (née de Bruijn). When...
Michael Jan Hugo Kuiper (born June 7, 1989) is a Dutch mixed martial artist who most recently competed in the Light Heavyweight division. A professional...
Rienk Bouke Kuiper (31 January 1886 – 22 April 1966) was a pastor and professor of systematic theology. Kuiper served as President of Calvin College between...
Jordy Kuiper (born 2 June 1995) is a Dutch basketball player who plays for Donar of the BNXT League. Standing at 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in), he plays as power...
Adrian Paul Kuiper (born 24 August 1959) is a former South African international cricketer who played in one international Test match and 25 One Day Internationals...
Pieter Jan Cornelis "Piet" Kuiper (30 July 1934 – 10 December 2017) was a Dutch botanist. He was professor of plant physiology at the University of Groningen...
method was modified by Nicolaas Kuiper to obtain the theorem above. The isometric embeddings produced by the Nash–Kuiper theorem are often considered counterintuitive...
Taco Esgo Kuiper (11 November 1941 in Batavia, Dutch East Indies – 24 September 2004 in Johannesburg, South Africa) was an investigative journalist and...
in 2015, and a secondary mission to fly by and study one or more other Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) in the decade to follow, which became a mission to 486958...
Nicky Kuiper (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈnɪki ˈkœypər]; born 7 June 1989) was a Dutch professional footballer who last played as a left-back for SV TEC. He...