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Noun: Gerard Peter Kuiper
  1. United States astronomer (born in the Netherlands) who studied the solar system and suggested in 1951 that there is a belt of comet-like debris at the edge of the solar system (1905-1973)
    - Kuiper, Gerard Kuiper

Type of: astronomer, stargazer [informal], uranologist

Encyclopedia: Gerard Peter Kuiper