What is "whipple"

Whipple may refer to:

Whipple is a lunar impact crater located on the lunar far side near the northern pole. The crater is located East of the prominent craters Byrd and Peary; the latter of which it is located on the rim of.

Whipple is permanently shaded from the Sun. Volatile species of atoms and molecules, such as water (and mercury), that enter the crater freeze, and thus get trapped due to the extremely cold conditions that prevail within the crater. Moreover, Whipple crater's radar signature is characterized by a high, same-sense, circular-polarization ratio (CPR). This is thought to indicate that there are thick—at least 2 metres—ice deposits that are relatively pure. Such ice deposits represent a potentially valuable source of drinkable water, as well as rocket propellant in the form of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen (LH/LO).

In addition, Whipple is next to a large, quasi-permanently sunlit plateau that occupies its north rim. There, the sun is visible nearly 80% of the time on average; the temperature in such quasi-permanently sunlit areas is quite mild by Lunar standards, averaging approximately -50 °C, ± 10°. This combination of permanently shaded, high-CPR crater adjacent to quasi-permanently sunlit plateau is unique in the north polar region of the Moon.

Whipple was adopted and named after American astronomer Fred Lawrence Whipple by the IAU in 2009.

Whipple mission was a proposal for a space observatory in the NASA Discovery Program 2014 announcement of opportunity. It would orbit in a halo orbit around the Earth–Sun and have a photometer that would try to detect Oort cloud and Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) by recording their transits of distant stars. It would be designed to detect objects out to 10,000 AU. Some of the mission goals included directly detecting the Oort cloud for the first time and determining the outer limit of the Kuiper belt. Whipple would be designed to detect objects as small as a kilometer (half a mile) across at a distance of . It would need a relatively wide field of view and fast recording cadence to capture transits that may last only seconds.

In 2011, Whipple was one of three proposals to win a technology development award in a Discovery program selection. The design proposed was a catadioptric cassegrain telescope of 77-centimeter aperture.

The smallest KBO yet detected was discovered in 2009 by poring over data from the Hubble Space Telescope's fine guidance sensors. They detected a transit of an object against a distant star, which, based on the duration and amount of dimming, was calculated to be a KBO about in diameter. It has been suggested that the Kepler observatory may be able to detect objects in the Oort cloud by their occultation of background stars.

Whipple is the surname of:

• Abraham Whipple (1733–1819), American Revolutionary War naval commander
• Addison A.B.C. Whipple (1918–2013), American journalist, editor, historian and author
• Allen Whipple (1881–1963), American surgeon
• Amiel Weeks Whipple (1818–1863), American military engineer and surveyor
• Beverly Whipple, American author, sexologist and Professor Emerita at Rutgers University
• Charles W. Whipple (1805-1856), American lawyer, politician and Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court
• Diane Whipple (1968–2001), victim of a fatal dog attack in San Francisco
• Dorothy Whipple (1893–1966), English writer of popular fiction
• Edwin Percy Whipple (1819–1886), American essayist and critic
• Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall, nee Whipple (1805–1878), abolitionist, poet, novelist, editor, botanist, spiritualist medium, and advocate of women's, voters', and workers' rights
• Francis John Welsh Whipple (1876–1943), British mathematician and meteorologist
• Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906–2004), American astronomer
• George Whipple (1878–1976), American physician, biomedical researcher, Nobel Prize winner
• George C. Whipple (1866–1924), American civil engineer and expert in the field of sanitary microbiology, inventor of Whipple's index and co-founder of the Harvard School of Public Health
• Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822–1901), first Episcopal bishop of Minnesota, United States
• John Adams Whipple (1822–1891), American inventor and early photographer
• Joseph Whipple (1662–1746), wealthy merchant in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and militia colonel
• Joseph Whipple, Jr. (1687–1750), merchant and deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, son of the above
• Joseph Whipple, III (1725–1761), merchant and deputy governor of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, son of the above
• Mark Whipple (born 1957), American college football and National Football League coach and college football player
• Mary Margaret Whipple (born 1940), American politician
• Maurine Whipple (1903–1992), American novelist
• Prince Whipple (1750-1796), African-American slave and later freedman, participant in the American Revolution
• Robert Stewart Whipple (1871–1953), businessman in the British scientific instrument trade, collector of science books and scientific instruments and author
• Sam Whipple (1960-2002), American actor
• Squire Whipple (1804–1888), American civil engineer known as the father of iron bridge building in America
• Thomas Whipple, Jr. (1787–1835), American politician
• Walter Whipple (born 1943), Associate Teaching Professor of Polish, author of many English translations of Polish poetry
• William Whipple (1730–1785), a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence