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Resonant Kuiper belt objects: a review [PDF]
Geoscience Letters, 2019 Our understanding of the history of the solar system has undergone a revolution in recent years, owing to new theoretical insights into the origin of Pluto and the discovery of the Kuiper belt and its rich dynamical structure.
Renu Malhotra
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Endogenically sourced volatiles on Charon and other Kuiper belt objects [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2022 We show cryovolcanic eruptions released sufficient methane to source volatile products on Charon. Irradiated methane products are found on other Kuiper belt objects, so endogenically sourced volatiles could be important across the Kuiper belt.
Stephanie M. Menten +2 more
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The formation of Haumea and its family via binary merging [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2022 Formation of the Haumea family, the only collisional group of icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt, is debated. Here, the authors show that Haumea family can be explained as a results of binary merging near the end of Neptune’s orbital migration.
Benjamin Proudfoot, Darin Ragozzine
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Kuiper Belt Occultation Predictions [PDF]
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2013 Here we present observations of 7 large Kuiper Belt Objects. From these observations, we extract a point source catalog with $\sim0.01"$ precision, and astrometry of our target Kuiper Belt Objects with $0.04-0.08"$ precision within that catalog. We have developed a new technique to predict the future occurrence of stellar occultations by Kuiper Belt ...
Fraser, Wesley C. +15 more
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Untangling the Copy Number Variation at the Basis of Belted Phenotypes in Cattle Using Long-Read Sequencing. [PDF]
Anim GenetABSTRACT The belted phenotype in cattle, a distinctive white belt across the midsection observed in breeds such as the Dutch Belted and Belted Galloway, is caused by a copy number variant (CNV) upstream of TWIST2, a gene involved in melanocyte development.
Hogers RAH +8 more
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Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, 2018 The Kuiper belt includes tens of thousands of large bodies and millions of smaller objects. The main part of the belt objects is located in the annular zone between 39.4 au and 47.8 au from the Sun, the boundaries correspond to the average distances for orbital resonances 3:2 and 2:1 with the motion of Neptune.
Pitjeva, E. V., Pitjev, N. P.
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A Measurement of the Kuiper Belt’s Mean Plane From Objects Classified By Machine Learning
The Astronomical Journal, 2023 Mean plane measurements of the Kuiper Belt from observational data are of interest for their potential to test dynamical models of the solar system. Recent measurements have yielded inconsistent results.
Ian Matheson, Renu Malhotra
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QUAOAR: A ROCK IN THE KUIPER BELT [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2010 Here we report WFPC2 observations of the Quaoar-Weywot Kuiper belt binary. From these observations we find that Weywot is on an elliptical orbit with eccentricity of 0.14 {\pm} 0.04, period of 12.438 {\pm} 0.005 days, and a semi-major axis of 1.45 {\pm} 0.08 {\times} 104 km.
Fraser, Wesley C., Brown, Michael E.
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Is There an Earth-like Planet in the Distant Kuiper Belt?
The Astronomical Journal, 2023 The orbits of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) can indicate the existence of an undiscovered planet in the outer solar system. Here we used N -body computer simulations to investigate the effects of a hypothetical Kuiper Belt planet (KBP) on the orbital ...
Patryk Sofia Lykawka, Takashi Ito
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Population of the Scattered Kuiper Belt [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2000 15 pages, 3 ...
Trujillo, C. A. +2 more
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