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   Who is Gerard Kuiper?

   • Growing up as a village boy in northern Holland, Gerard Kuiper eventually ended up as arguably one of the fathers of modern planetary science. The American-Dutch astronomer has many achievements to his name. The most literal and notable of these achievements is the proposal of the ‘Kuiper Belt’ – named after him upon discovery.

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   How did Kuiper create planetary science?

   • Kuiper had created a new discipline we now call planetary science. Kuiper was an acclaimed astronomer of binary stars and white dwarfs when he accidentally discovered that Titan, the massive moon of Saturn, had an atmosphere.

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   What did Kuiper discover?

   • In addition to this and his other discoveries in the emerging discipline of infrared astronomy, Kuiper used the McDonald Observatory telescope to photograph the regions around the planets to search for satellites. In 1949, he discovered Miranda, the fifth moon of Uranus, and Nereid, the second known moon of Neptune.

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   What did Kuiper study?

   • With these questions foremost in his mind, Kuiper devoted his intellectual life to observational studies of the evolution and characteristics of star systems, and to the properties of the Sun's family of planets.

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   Kuiper's contribution to this picture was related to details in the eddies that were stable against disruption by the growing young Sun. Kuiper had come to his theory of the origin of the solar system as an outgrowth of the observational studies of double stars that he began as a student in Leiden.

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   Aug 30, 2023 · Gerard P. Kuiper (1905-1973) is considered by many as the father of modern planetary science. Kuiper was born in The Netherlands. He entered Leiden University in 1924 and received his Bachelor of Science in 1927 and a Ph.D. in Astronomy in 1933.

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   Feb 1, 2019 · The American-Dutch astronomer has many achievements to his name. The most literal and notable of these achievements is the proposal of the ‘Kuiper Belt’ – named after him upon discovery. Although he’s best known for his belt, he also discovered and predicted many aspects of our Solar System that altered the planetary sciences.

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   His most significant achievements included the discovery of Uranus’ moon Miranda and the existence of an atmosphere on Titan, as well as the Moon-mapping project that facilitated the development of NASA’s programme of lunar missions during the 1960s.

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   By Derek W. G. Sears. University of Arizona Press, 2019, 368 pp., Hardcover, $45.00. uapress.arizona.edu. Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper ignored the traditional boundaries of his subject. Using telescopes and the laboratory, he made the solar system a familiar, intriguing place. “It is not astronomy,” complained his colleagues, and they were ...

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   Dec 7, 2021 · Considered by many to be the father of modern planetary science, Kuiper is the eponymous namesake of the Kuiper belt, a region of the Solar System beyond the planets, extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun . Kuiper also discovered Miranda, a moon of Uranus, and Nereid, a moon of Neptune.