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Kenneth Edgeworth

Kenneth Edgeworth has left behind a very important legacy in the astronomy world. In 1943 the proposal of a reservoir of icy object beyond Neptune. Eight years later the astronomer Gerard_Kuiper came up with a more detailed prediction. Those distant solar bodies included Pluto, Eris_(dwarf_planet) and Makemake onto the Kuiper_belt. Some astronomers, however, name it as the Edgeworth – Kuiper belt. Kenneth Edgeworth as early as 1938, plainly stated that the newly discovered planet Pluto was too small to be a planet but, was probably the largest member of a family of objects that formed out of the rubble left over from the formation of the solar system. In 1948 he was elected to membership of the Royal Irish Academy, but it wasn’t until 1995 his research was not fully recognised. He was also elected a Fellow of the Royal_Astronomical_Society in 1903 and belonged to the Institution_of_Electrical_Engineers in 1943. These legacies really show his talent within the Irish astronomers not alone within the talent associated within the globe at this time.

While retired Kenneth Edgeworth has published four books devoted to economics named Edgeworth - n.d. ,1932,1933 and 1944. These were all wrote circa The Second World war and were based on topics such as “Unemployment Can be Cured” and “Trade Balance”. Although these were based on economics, Edgeworth has been far more credited for his work in Astronomy as well as writing much more in this subject area which has been beneficial to this subject. His book “The Earth, the Planet, and the Stars: Their Birth and Evolution” on the subject of theoretical astronomy based research which he wrote in 1961.

Kenneth Edgeworth had such an interest in star formation and the development of the Solar_System. He even wrote a paper specifically on the “Origin and the evolution of the solar system” which continued to research beyond Neptune. Even though his writing was vital in demotion Pluto as a state there have been critiques in his work saying that “his style of presentation being somewhat brusque”. Again in 2015 photos were taken of Pluto and these images again firmly establish the legacy of Kenneth Edgeworth. Kenneth Edgeworth works have proven to be vital in further studies in astronomy and with studies of Pluto. The Edgeworth – Kuiper belt has influenced many astronomers to read more into the demotion of Pluto as a planet.