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Kuiper is a small lunar impact crater in a relatively featureless part of the Mare Cognitum. It is a circular, cup-shaped feature with only some minor wear. This crater was previously identified as Bonpland E before being renamed by the IAU. The lava-flooded crater Bonpland lies to the east at the edge of the Mare Cognitum.
To the east-southeast of Kuiper crater is the crash landing site of the Ranger 7 probe, the first American spacecraft to photograph the Moon. Gerard Kuiper was the Project Scientist for the Ranger program, and this feature was named for him after he died in 1973.
Kuiper or Kuyper is a Dutch surname. Notable people with the name include:
- Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920), Dutch politician and theologian
- Adrian Kuiper (born 1959), South African cricketer
- David Kuiper (born 1980), Dutch rower
- Duane Kuiper (born 1950), American baseball player
- Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper (1907–2003), Dutch Indologist
- Gerard Kuiper (1905–1973), Dutch-American astronomer
- Glen Kuiper (born 1963) American broadcaster
- Hennie Kuiper (born 1949), Dutch cyclist
- Michael Kuiper (born 1989), Dutch martial artist
- Nick Kuiper (born 1982), Canadian ice hockey player
- Nicky Kuiper (born 1989), Dutch footballer
- Nicolaas Kuiper (1920–1994), Dutch mathematician
- Peter Kuiper (1929–2007), German actor
- Rienk Kuiper (1886–1966), Frisian-Dutch president of Calvin College
- Roel Kuiper (born 1962), Dutch historian, philosopher and politician
- Taco Kuiper (1941–2004), South African publisher and journalist
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Kuiper is a moderate-size crater with a central peak cluster located at on Mercury. It is 60 km in diameter and was named after Gerard Kuiper in 1976. It is one of very few Mercurian craters which are named not after artists, and one of very few cases when the same name is used for 3 craters (there are also Kuiper craters on Mars and on the Moon).
Kuiper crater has the highest recorded albedo of any region on the planet's surface and has a prominent ray system, suggesting that it is one of the youngest craters.
Kuiper overlies the northern rim of the larger crater Murasaki.
Kuiper is a Dutch surname.
Kuiper may also refer to:
- Kuiper (Mercurian crater), moderate sized crater on Mercury
- Kuiper (lunar crater), located in the Mare Cognitum
- Kuiper belt, an area of the solar system extending past the orbit of Neptune
- Kuiper Airborne Observatory, NASA research facility for infrared astronomy
Kuiper Crater is an impact crater in the Phaethontis quadrangle of Mars, located at 57.4°S latitude and 157.3°W longitude. It is 87.0 km in diameter and was named after Gerard Peter Kuiper, and the name was approved in 1976.
Usage examples of "kuiper".
Eighty years ago, an experiment in accelerated evolution of chemoautotrophic vacuum organisms had been set up on a planetoid in the outer edge of the Kuiper Belt.
His only companions out here were the enigmatic ice moons of the Kuiper Belt, fragments of rock and ice left undisturbed since the birth of the Sun, each of them surrounded by an emptiness wider than all the inner Solar System.
Kuiper Belt have fairly circular orbits with semimajor axes from 35 to 56 AU, and form a region that looks like a doughnut.
Kuiper Belt, there lived a man named Bruno de Towaji who, at the time of our latest attention, sat brooding in his study, staring at the measurement his desk had reported for the umptieth time.
Only a few astronomers, notably Gerard Kuiper, the Dutch-born astronomer for whom the Kuiper belt of comets is named, took any interest in the solar system at all.
They were intending long stays in the Kuiper Belt, or even farther off in Cloudland, and they wanted to make their personal form adaptation as soon as possible.
No habs and no traces of megastructures were shown, and only the vaguest indications of Oort and Kuiper bodies and asteroid belts were given.
Models of the Kuiper Belt showed that the icy chunks were on average an Astronomical Unit apart&mdash.
The transportation data bank for the Kuiper Belt will tell me who’.
Kenmuir put in what specifics he had been able to guess at, such as the broad arc of heaven in which the object most likely was wandering, but in its final form the query amounted to: Does a very large ferrous asteroid, perturbed out of the inner Solar System, orbit through the Kuiper Belt?
My plan is to remain in the Kuiper Belt for just a few more days, then return to the inner system.
The innermost province of the Oort Comet Cloud, of which these new objects may be members, is called the Kuiper Belt, after my mentor Gerard Kuiper, who first suggested that it should exist.
Short-period comets-like Halley's-arise in the Kuiper Belt, respond to gravitational tugs, sweep into the inner part of the Solar System, grow their tails, and grace our skies.
Yes, Dagny recalled, he could publicly mount a program to investigate the remote reaches of the Solar System, sketch-map and estimate-count the comets of the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune and the Oort Cloud beyond it.
Poole's consortium had hauled the first wormhole Interface out to the Kuiper Belt, linking Alaska to the distant, cosy worlds of the inner System.