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The Kuiper belt was named after Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper (1905-1975), though he did not actually predict its existence; the first astronomer to suggest the existence of a trans-Neptunian population was Frederick C. Leonard (1896-1960) who, postulated its existence in 1930 after the discovery of Pluto.
It acquired its name from a paper in 1988 the Canadian team of Martin Duncan, Tom Quinn and Scott Tremaine who were working to expand on work by Uruguayan astronomer Julio Fernández to develop a model that would account for the number of short period comets observed. They found that the Oort cloud could not account for all short-period comets, particularly as short-period comets are clustered near the plane of the Solar System, whereas Oort-cloud comets tend to arrive from any point in the sky. With a "belt", as Fernández described it, added to the formulations, the simulations matched observations. Reportedly because the words "Kuiper" and "comet belt" appeared in the opening sentence of Fernández's paper, Tremaine named this hypothetical region the "Kuiper belt".
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Who was the Kuiper belt named after?
The Kuiper Belt is named after Gerard Kuiper; he was one of the only scientists who had theories about the Kuiper belt in the early fifties
What is the full name of the kuiper belt?
The full name of the Kuiper Belt is the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt. It is named for the astronomers Kenneth Edgeworth and Gerard Kuiper. The Kuiper Belt is a region of the Earths solar system that is found beyond the planets. It extends from the orbit of Neptune.
What is the donut-shaped region of comets the begins near Neptune's orbit?
the KUIPER BELT
What is a nickname for the kuiper belt?
it's sometimes called the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt
What is another name for the asteroid belt and Kuiper belt?
The asteroid belt is sometimes referred to as the "main belt," while the Kuiper belt is also known as the "Edgeworth-Kuiper belt."
What does Pluto dwells on on the inner Edge?
Kuiper belt
Is the Kuiper belt close to Jupiter?
No. The Kuiper belt is out past the orbit of Neptune.
Where is Ceres location in the Kuiper Belt?
The "Kuiper Belt" is named for Dutch astronomer Gerard Kuiper (1905-1973) and extends outward from the orbit of Neptune (from about 30 to 55 AU from the Sun). The area is vast, encompassing several trillion cubic kilometers. It contains many remnants from the formation of the Solar System, as its lack of planet-sized bodies prevented smaller planetoids from being captured or swept away.
Where is the kuiper belt located at?
The kuiper belt are a collection of rocks beyond the orbit of Pluto. All the dwarf planets (except Ceres) are near the Kuiper Belt.
Does charon belong to Kuiper belt?
Yes, it is a moon of Pluto, which is a Kuiper belt object.
Is earth part of the Kuiper belt?
No. The Kuiper belt is thirty to fifty times farther from the sun than Earth is.
What is the name of the planet in the kuiperbelt?
There is not a "Planet" in the Kuiper Belt but a Dwarf Planet named Ceres is there. Hope I Helped -David
