Col-OSSOS: The Two Types of Kuiper Belt Surfaces
The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 The Colors of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (Col-OSSOS) has gathered a high-quality, near-simultaneous, and brightness-complete sample of ( g − r ) and ( r − J ) colors for 102 Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) with ( u − g ) and ( r − z ) gathered for ...
Wesley C. Fraser +14 more
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The Inclination Distribution of the Kuiper Belt [PDF]
, 2001 We develop a general method for determining the unbiased inclination distribution of the Kuiper belt using only the inclination and latitude of discovery of known Kuiper belt objects (KBOs).
Brown, Michael E.
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Col-OSSOS: Evidence for a Compositional Gradient Inherited from the Protoplanetary Disk?
The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 In the present-day Kuiper Belt, the number of compositional classes and the orbital distributions of these classes hold important cosmogonic implications for the solar system.
Michaël Marsset +10 more
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Retention of a Primordial Cold Classical Kuiper Belt in an Instability-Driven Model of Solar System Formation [PDF]
, 2011 The cold classical population of the Kuiper belt exhibits a wide variety of unique physical characteristics, which collectively suggest that its dynamical coherence has been maintained through out the solar system's lifetime.
Batygin, Konstantin +2 more
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Detecting a small Kuiper Belt object using archival data of HST's Fine Guidance Sensor [PDF]
, 2010 The Kuiper Belt is a remnant of the primordial Solar System. Measurements of its size distribution constrain its accretion and collisional history, and the importance of material strength of Kuiper Belt objects.
Gal-Yam, Avishay +7 more
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Near-Infrared Spectrum of Low-Inclination Classical Kuiper Belt Object (79360) 1997 CS29
The Astronomical Journal, 2005 The "cold classical" Kuiper Belt is the only part of the Kuiper Belt where objects show color statistics distinct from the rest of the trans-Neptunian population. Cold classical orbits are also likely to have been among the least dynamically perturbed since the time of accretion.
W. M. Grundy, M. W. Buie, J. R. Spencer
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Photometry of Kuiper belt object (486958) Arrokoth from New Horizons LORRI [PDF]
, 2021 On January 1st 2019, the New Horizons spacecraft flew by the classical Kuiper belt object (486958) Arrokoth (provisionally designated 2014 MU69), possibly the most primitive object ever explored by a spacecraft.
Benecchi, Susan D. +13 more
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The Hubble Wide Field Camera 3 Test of Surfaces in the Outer Solar System: The Compositional Classes of the Kuiper Belt [PDF]
, 2012 We present the first results of the Hubble Wide Field Camera 3 Test of Surfaces in the Outer Solar System (H/WTSOSS). The purpose of this survey was to measure the surface properties of a large number of Kuiper belt objects and attempt to infer ...
Brown, M. E., Fraser, W. C.
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Water ice in the Kuiper belt [PDF]
, 2012 We examine a large collection of low-resolution near-infrared spectra of Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) and centaurs in an attempt to understand the presence of water ice in the Kuiper Belt.
Brown, M. E. +2 more
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The albedo-color diversity of transneptunian objects [PDF]
, 2014 We analyze albedo data obtained using the Herschel Space Observatory that reveal the existence of two distinct types of surface among midsized transneptunian objects.
Delsanti, Audrey +11 more
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