Scotland2W - Kuiper Belt Multi-Cache
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Spacedout Project (currently non-active)
In 2005 the Spacedout project was launched (www.spacedout-uk.com). The project aimed to built the world’s largest scale model of the Solar System, in the UK. The Sun is located at the world-famous Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, with six of its attendant planets dotted around the North West of England
The outer planet Pluto is located in Aberdeen. In 2010 “The Quay” development in Newburgh (Aberdeenshire) was completed. An artwork was erected to finish the communal garden. The artwork consisted of a highly polished metal ring/band, vertical placed with a diameter of approximately 8 feet. In the context of the Spacedout project, the band was at scale with the KUIPER BELT. A belt of astroids named after the Dutch astronomer Gerard Kuiper.
Gerrit Pieter Kuiper, 1905-1973, Dutch-American astronomer.
Kuiper, the son of a tailor in the village of Tuitjenhorn in the province of Noord Holland, had an early interest in astronomy. He had extraordinarily sharp eyesight, allowing him to see magnitude 7.5 stars with the naked eye, about four times fainter than visible to normal eyes. He went to study at Leiden University in 1924, where at the time a very large number of astronomers had congregated. He was taught by tutors including Ejnar Hertzsprung which whom he finished his doctoral thesis on binary stars in 1933. He received his B.Sc. in Astronomy in 1927 and continued straight on with his graduate studies. After receiving his doctoral in 1933 he immediately traveled to California to become a fellow under Robert Grant Aitken at the Lick Observatory. In 1935 he left to work at the Harvard College Observatory where he met Sarah Parker Fuller, whom he married on June 20, 1936. Although he had planned to move to Java (Dutch Indonesia at the times) to work at the Bosscha Observatory, he took a position at the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago and became an American citizen in 1937.
In 1949, Kuiper initiated the Yerkes–McDonald asteroid survey (1950–1952).
Kuiper discovered two natural satellites of planets in the solar system, namely Uranus's satellite Miranda and Neptune's satellite Nereid. In addition, he discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Mars and the existence of a methane-laced atmosphere above Saturn's satellite Titan in 1944. Kuiper also pioneered airborne infrared observing using a Convair 990 aircraft in the 1960s.
Kuiper spent most of his career at the University of Chicago, but moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1960 to found the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona. Kuiper was the laboratory's director until his death in 1973 while on vacation with his wife in Mexico. One of the three buildings at Arizona that makes up the LPL is named in his honor.
In the 1960s, Kuiper helped identify landing sites on the moon for the Apollo program.
Kuiper discovered several binary stars which received "Kuiper numbers" to identify them, such as KUI 79.
Since the belt was discovered in 1992, the number of known Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) has increased to over a thousand, and more than 70,000 KBOs over 100 km (62 mi) in diameter are believed to exist.
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Ernq onpx; "Yrn Pbggntrf Abf 12-1", hcfvqr qbja.
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