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Whipple shield

type of hypervelocity impact shield used on spacecraft
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Whipple shield

Summary

Whipple shield ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (119 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Whipple shield is credited with the discovery of Fred Lawrence Whipple[2].
  • Whipple shield's image is recorded as WhippleShield.jpg[3].
  • Fred Lawrence Whipple is named after Whipple shield[4].
  • Whipple shield's subclass of is recorded as vehicle armor[5].
  • Whipple shield's subclass of is recorded as spaced armour[6].
  • Whipple shield's Commons category is recorded as Whipple shields[7].
  • Whipple shield's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/049v60[8].
  • Whipple shield's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Whipple-Shield[9].
  • Whipple shield's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2776005759[10].

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Works and Contributions

Whipple shield is credited with the discovery of Fred Lawrence Whipple[2].

Why It Matters

Whipple shield ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (119 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11]

Related Entities

Fred Lawrence Whipple

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_whipple-shield_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Whipple shield}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/whipple-shield}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-11}}
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