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Keck Pencil-Beam Survey for Faint Kuiper Belt Objects [PDF]

, 1999
We present the results of a pencil-beam survey of the Kuiper Belt using the Keck 10-m telescope. A single 0.01 square degree field is imaged 29 times for a total integration time of 4.8 hr.
Dohnanyi J. S., E. I. Chiang, M. E. Brown, Weissman P. R.   +3 more
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The Compositions of Kuiper Belt Objects [PDF]

, 2011
Objects in the Kuiper belt are small and far away thus difficult to study in detail even with the best telescopes available at earth. For much of the early history of the Kuiper belt, studies of the compositions of these objects were relegated to ...
Brown RH, Cruikshank DP, Michael E. Brown, Morbidelli A   +3 more
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An Exploration Of Neptune'S Dynamical History In Relation To The Classical Kuiper Belt Objects

, 2013
The structure of the outer disk of planetesimals in today's solar system was shaped largely by the dynamical history of Neptune. In the Classical Region of the Kuiper Belt, there exist overlying populations of high-inclination, dynami- cally hot Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) and low-inclination cold objects, each with uniquely defined properties.
Jackson, Jonathan, Murray-Clay, R.
openaire   +1 more source

The Scattered Disk as the source of the Jupiter Family comets

, 2008
The short period Jupiter family comets (JFCs) are thought to originate in the Kuiper Belt; specifically, a dynamical subclass of the Kuiper Belt known as the `scattered disk' is argued to be the dominant source of JFCs.
Giorgini J. D., Kathryn Volk, Renu Malhotra, Sekanina Z., Tancredi G.   +4 more
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The Planet Nine Hypothesis [PDF]

, 2019
Over the course of the past two decades, observational surveys have unveiled the intricate orbital structure of the Kuiper Belt, a field of icy bodies orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune.
Adams, Fred C., Batygin, Konstantin, Becker, Juliette C., Brown, Michael E.   +3 more
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The Inner Kernel of the Classical Kuiper Belt

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
The “kernel” of the classical Kuiper Belt was discovered by Petit et al. as a visual overdensity of objects with low ecliptic inclinations and eccentricities at semimajor axes near ∼44 au.
Amir Siraj, Christopher F. Chyba, Scott Tremaine   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Edgeworth-Kuiper debris disk [PDF]

, 2010
(Abridged) The Edgeworth-Kuiper belt with its presumed dusty debris is a natural reference for extrsolar debris disks. We employ a new algorithm to eliminate the inclination and the distance selection effects in the known TNO populations to derive ...
A. V. Krivov, Allen, Beichman, Bernstein, Booth, Brown, Brucker, Burns, Ch. Vitense, Chen, Chen, Chiang, Donnison, Dumas, Elliot, Fraser, Fraser, Fraser, Fuentes, Fuentes, Gladman, Gladman, Gomes, Greaves, Gurnett, Hauschildt, Horányi, Irwin, Jewitt, Jewitt, Jewitt, Jewitt, Johansen, Johansen, Kavelaars, Kenyon, Kolokolova, Krivov, Krivov, Krivov, Krivov, Krivov, Krivov, Landgraf, Laor, Larsen, Lawler, Liou, Lissauer, Luu, Luu, Löhne, Moro-Martín, Moro-Martín, Moór, Müller, Noll, O'Brien, Petit, Pinilla-Alonso, Quinn, Sheret, Stern, Stern, Strubbe, T. Löhne, Tanner, Thébault, Thébault, Trujillo, Trujillo, Trujillo, Trujillo, Warren, Wetherill, Wyatt, Wyatt, Wyatt, Wyatt   +78 more
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Satellites and Small Bodies With ALMA: Insights Into Solar System Formation and Evolution

AGU Advances, Volume 6, Issue 6, December 2025.
Abstract Our understanding of the formation and evolution of planetary systems has made major advances in the past decade. This progress has been driven in large part by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), which has given us an unprecedented view of solar system bodies themselves, and of the structure and chemistry of forming ...
Katherine de Kleer, Michael E. Brown, Martin Cordiner, Richard Teague   +3 more
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Reassessing the Relationship Between Meteor Radio Afterglows and Optical Persistent Trains

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, Volume 130, Issue 9, September 2025.
Abstract Meteor radio afterglows (MRAs) and optical persistent trains (PTs) are two types of long‐lived phenomena which are occasionally observed following the occurrence of a meteor. Both phenomena are thought to be produced by intrinsic emission mechanisms; PTs have been associated with chemiluminescent reactions between meteoric metals and ...
L. E. Cordonnier, K. S. Obenberger, G. B. Taylor, J. M. Holmes, J. Dowell, D. Vida   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Observed Binary Fraction Sets Limits on the Extent of Collisional Grinding in the Kuiper Belt

, 2011
The size distribution in the cold classical Kuiper belt can be approximated by two idealized power laws: one with steep slope for radii R>R* and one with shallow slope for ...
Benavidez, Bernstein, Bertotti, Bottke, David Nesvorný, David Vokrouhlický, Davis, Dones, Fraser, Fuentes, Fuentes, Gladman, Harold F. Levison, Keith Noll, Kenyon, Kenyon, Levison, Merline, Morbidelli, Nesvorný, Nesvorný, Noll, Parker, Petit, Schaller, Stern, Stevenson, Stewart, Trujillo, William F. Bottke   +29 more
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