The Kuiper-Edgeworth Belt is named for the astronomers Gerard Kuiper, who theorized about a disk of material in the outer reaches of the solar system, and Kenneth Edgeworth, who had the idea that the outer solar system contained a number of small bodies, perhaps left over from the formation ...
What do we really know about the Kuiper belt? Fifth dispatch from the annual planets meetingGeorge Musser
The Deep Ecliptic Survey: A Search for Kuiper Belt Objects and Centaurs. II. Dynamical Classification, the Kuiper Belt Plane, and the Core Population The Deep Ecliptic Survey (DES)-a search optimized for the discovery of Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) with the Blanco and Mayall 4 m telescopes at...
more, and the Oort Cloud, a sphere of icy leftovers from the creation of the solar system 距太阳约有1光年 nearly a light-year away from the sun. 科学家们相信 短周期彗星来自柯伊伯带 Scientists believe that short-per...
Kuiper, Gerard PeterAlso found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus. Kuiper, Gerard Peter(1905–73) astronomer; born in Harenkarspel, Holland. He arrived in California as a fellow at the Lick Observatory (1933–35), and attained citizenship in 1937. He directed the Yerkes and McDonald Observatories (...
wide as the United States.This planet takes 248 earth years to travel around the Sun.It means we need 6.5 earth days to spend a day on Pluto.Pluto is about 40 times farther from the Sun than Earth is.Pluto is in an area of space called the Kuiper Belt (4) wh...
object could still be considered a Centaur). The Kuiper Belt consists of a yet undetermined number of objects made up of frozen gas and dust that orbit in the general vicinity of Pluto and Neptune. Astronomer Gerald Kuiper initially speculated about the existence of the Kuiper Belt in the ...
For a long time, we thought Pluto was unique in the Kuiper Belt. But as astronomers discovered more and more about the Kuiper Belt (and the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter), we learned that there are lots of objects like Pluto. More like Pluto, in some ways, than Pluto is like...
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