Word: kuiper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remarkable eclipsing binary is the star Beta Lyrae, in the constellation of Lyra (The Harp). Astronomers have long known that its two components must be exceedingly close together, for one has hardly stopped eclipsing the other before the other starts eclipsing the first. Dr. Gerard Peter Kuiper of the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory last week surmised that the two stars comprising Beta Lyrae are in actual contact, like snowballs crushed together...