1. Kuiper - Noun
2. Kuiper - Proper 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)
Source: WordNetA consensus among astronomers as to the precise definition of the Kuiper belt has yet to be reached, and this issue remains unresolved. Source: Internet
A growing number of astronomers argued for Pluto to be declassified as a planet, because many similar objects approaching its size had been found in the same region of the Solar System (the Kuiper belt ) during the 1990s and early 2000s. Source: Internet
A large number of Kuiper belt objects, like Pluto, are in a 2:3 orbital resonance with Neptune. Source: Internet
Although Pluto is currently the largest known KBO, there is at least one known larger object currently outside the Kuiper belt that probably originated in it: Neptune's moon Triton (which, as explained above, is probably a captured KBO). Source: Internet
Asteroids and Kuiper Belt Objects (including Pluto ) exhibit apparent retrogradation. Source: Internet
Astronomers refer to a region of minor planets beyond Neptune as the " Kuiper belt ", since Kuiper had suggested that such small planets or comets may have formed there. Source: Internet