Besides the minor planet 1776 Kuiper, the crater Kuiper on the Moon, craters on Mars and Mercury, the now-decommissioned Kuiper Airborne Observatory was also named after him.

* 1977 – James Elliot discovers the rings of Uranus during a stellar occultation experiment on the Kuiper Airborne Observatory

* Timeline of History of Lasers, John Talbot-Noted are discoveries of laser action in quasars ( 1973 ), CO < sub > 2 </ sub > lasers in the atmospheres of Mars and Venus ( 1981 ), far-infrared laser star by Kuiper Airborne Observatory ( 1995 ) and ultraviolet laser star by Hubble Space Telescope ( 1996 ).

The Gerard P. Kuiper Airborne Observatory ( KAO ) was a national facility operated by NASA to support research in infrared astronomy.

* About the Kuiper Airborne Observatory

* Infrared Astronomy: The Kuiper Airborne Observatory

* The Compact Cosmic Ray Telescope aboard the Kuiper Airborne Observatory

* Kuiper Airborne Observatory Marks 30th Anniversary of its Dedication

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* March 10 – Rings of Uranus discovered by Kuiper Airborne Observatory measurements of star occultation.

The definitive discovery of the Uranian Rings was made by astronomers James L. Elliot, Edward W. Dunham, and Douglas J. Mink on March 10, 1977, using the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, and was serendipitous.

Named SOFIA Chief Scientist in 1996, he was the first director of the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility ( IRTF ) at Mauna Kea, Hawaii and a principal investigator on the Kuiper Airborne Observatory ( KAO ).

Kuiper finished his doctoral thesis on binary stars with Hertzsprung in 1933, after which he immediately traveled to California to become a fellow under Robert Grant Aitken at the Lick Observatory.

In 1948, Gerard Kuiper at the McDonald Observatory discovered the smallest and the last of the five large, spherical moons, Miranda.

Although he is best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930, the first object to be discovered in what would later be identified as the Kuiper belt, Tombaugh also discovered many asteroids ; he also called for serious scientific research of unidentified flying objects.

John Spencer, an astronomer on the New Horizons mission team, says that no target for a post-Pluto Kuiper belt encounter has yet been selected, as they are awaiting data from the Pan-STARRS survey project to ensure as wide a field of options as possible.

For some, they are distinct populations ; for others, the scattered disc is part of the Kuiper belt.

In 2010, in a season described with the slogan " Giants Baseball: Torture " by broadcaster Duane Kuiper, the club won the National League Western Division title for the first time since 2003 after trailing the San Diego Padres most of the season.

* As a result of the discovery of Eris, a Kuiper Belt object larger than Pluto, in August 2006, Pluto is demoted to a " dwarf planet " after being considered a planet for 76 years, redefining the solar system to have eight planets and three dwarf planets.

Thought to be the point of origin for the majority of short-period comets observed from Earth, it is also home to several large, planet-like bodies including Pluto, which is now recognized as the largest in a population of Kuiper belt objects ( the plutinos ) locked in orbital step with Neptune.

In the 1960s, Kuiper helped identify landing sites on the moon for the Apollo program.

* In 1971, Kuiper received the Kepler Gold Medal from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Franklin Institute.

The Kuiper Prize, named in his honor, is the most distinguished award given by the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences, an international society of professional planetary scientists.

* 1951 – Kuiper argues for an annular reservoir of comets between 40-100 astronomical units from the Sun, the Kuiper belt

Among the many current programs are a search for near-Earth asteroids, a survey of the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune, a search for extrasolar planets, a decades-long study of the brightness stability of the sun, and a variety of investigations of star formation and other processes in distant galaxies.

The Kuiper belt object 148780 Altjira is named for Altjira.

to become comets, Kuiper belt objects or trojan asteroids, for example.

* The Gerard P. Kuiper Prize ( DPS ), for lifetime achievement in planetary science

After passing Pluto, the spacecraft would have used its imaging camera to search for Kuiper Belt objects.

If, however, the albedo of Vanth is only 0. 12 — typical for small reddish Kuiper belt objects, their sizes are approximately 760 and 380 km, respectively.

Ostro received the Gerard P. Kuiper Prize from the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society in 2003.

* Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society: Ostro was the recipient of the 2003 DPS Kuiper Prize

Because it is a great deal closer to the Sun than was expected for an Oort cloud object, and has an inclination roughly in line with the planets and the Kuiper belt, they described the planetoid as being an " inner Oort cloud object ", situated in the disc reaching from the Kuiper belt to the spherical part of the cloud.

In their initial paper, Brown, Rabinowitz and colleagues suggested three possible candidates for the perturbing body: an unseen planet beyond the Kuiper belt, a single passing star, or one of the young stars embedded with the Sun in the stellar cluster in which it formed.

Dyson also has proposed the use of bioengineered space colonies to colonize the Kuiper Belt on the outer edge of our Solar System.