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Kuiper

American  
[kahy-per] / ˈkaɪ pər /

noun

  1. Gerard Peter, 1905–73, U.S. astronomer, born in the Netherlands.


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Beyond the turbulent asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter lies the Kuiper Belt, a distant region past Neptune filled with frozen remnants from the solar system's earliest days.

From Science Daily

The launch, scheduled at 1645 GMT, will be a first for Amazon Leo, formerly known as Project Kuiper, from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on the northeastern coast of South America.

From Barron's

This is more than three times the distance of the Kuiper Belt from the sun in our solar system.

From Science Daily

After billions of years, two major planetesimal belts remain: the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and the Kuiper belt beyond the giant planets.

From Science Daily

“We continue to see the potential for upside across Amazon’s business segments including e-commerce, cloud, advertising, and Kuiper / low earth orbit satellites,” he wrote.

From Barron's