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24 de may. de 2024 · Explore the life and legacy of Gerard Kuiper, the visionary astronomer who predicted the existence of the Kuiper Belt and reshaped our understanding of the solar system....
Hace 4 días · The Kuiper belt is named in honor of the Dutch astronomer Gerard Kuiper, who conjectured the existence of the belt in 1951. There were researchers before and after him who also speculated on its existence, such as Kenneth Edgeworth in the 1930s.
Hace 5 días · The Kuiper Belt is named after a scientist named Gerard Kuiper. In 1951 he had the idea that a belt of icy bodies might have existed beyond Neptune when the solar system formed. He was trying to explain where comets with small orbits came from.
31 de may. de 2024 · Un satélite natural más fue descubierto en 1949 por Gerard Kuiper, quien nombró a esta luna Nereida. La luna llamada Larisa fue observada por primera vez en 1981 por un grupo de astrónomos.
Hace 2 días · This observation was confirmed by Dutch astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper in 1944 using a spectroscopic technique that yielded an estimate of an atmospheric partial pressure of methane of the order of 100 millibars (10 kPa).
31 de may. de 2024 · In 1960, astronomer Gerard Kuiper published the last major atlas of the Moon prior to the space age that was based on Earth-based photographs. The atlas contains 281 photographs taken between 1901 and 1959 at five observatories: Mount Wilson, Lick, McDonald, and Yerkes observatories in the U.S., and Pic du Midi Observatory in France.
11 de may. de 2024 · EEUU y Taiwan se muestran reticentes a confiar sus telecomunicaciones a SpaceX y apuestan por Jeff Bezos. Un cohete del Proyecto Kuiper despega en Cabo Cañaveral. AP. Pablo Pardo. Corresponsal ...
