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Öpik

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Öpik is an Estonian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Armin Öpik (1898–1983), Estonian/Australian paleontologist
  • Ernst Öpik (1893–1985), Estonian astronomer
    • Öpik-Oort cloud, hypothesized spherical cloud of comets
    • 2099 Öpik, asteroid, named after Ernst Öpik
    • Öpik, crater on Phobos, also named after Ernst Öpik
  • Ilmar Öpik (1917–2001), Estonian energetics scientist and academic
  • Lembit Öpik (born 1965), British politician