kuiper : Idioms & Phrases

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edgeworth-kuiper belt

  • noun a disk-shaped region of minor planets outside the orbit of Neptune
    Edgeworth-Kuiper belt.
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gerard kuiper

  • noun United States astronomer (born in the Netherlands) who studied the solar system and suggested in 1951 that there is a belt of comet-like debris at the edge of the solar system (1905-1973)
    Gerard Kuiper; Kuiper.
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gerard peter kuiper

  • noun United States astronomer (born in the Netherlands) who studied the solar system and suggested in 1951 that there is a belt of comet-like debris at the edge of the solar system (1905-1973)
    Gerard Kuiper; Kuiper.
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kuiper belt

  • noun a disk-shaped region of minor planets outside the orbit of Neptune
    Edgeworth-Kuiper belt.
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kuiper belt object

  • noun any of many minor planets in the Kuiper belt outside the orbit of Neptune at the edge of the solar system
    KBO.
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