1776 Kuiper
1776 Kuiper, provisional designation , is a dark Eoan asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 38 kilometers in diameter.

It was discovered on 24 September 1960, by Dutch astronomer couple Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten in collaboration with Dutch–American astronomer Tom Gehrels at the U.S. Palomar Observatory in California, and named after Dutch astronomer Gerard Kuiper.
Q3863
asteroid
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Q2179
asteroid belt
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Q231642
Ingrid
PER
Q336095
Cornelis van Houten
PER
Q312255
Tom Gehrels
PER
Q191684
Palomar Observatory
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Q192948
Gerard Kuiper
PER
Q143592
1776 Kuiper
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1960-09-24T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
24 September 1960
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1776
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+38^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
38
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