Kenneth Edgeworth | |
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![]() Kenneth Essex Edgeworth in January 1905 | |
Born | 26 February 1880 ![]() |
Died | 10 October 1972 ![]() |
Kenneth Essex Edgeworth DSO MC (26 February 1880 – 10 October 1972) was an Irish army officer, engineer, economist and independent theoretical astronomer.[1] He was born in Street, County Westmeath.[2] Edgeworth is best known for proposing the existence of a disc of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune in the 1930s. Observations later confirmed the existence of the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt in 1992. Those distant solar system bodies, including Pluto, Eris and Makemake, are now grouped into the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, or Kuiper belt.[3]