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Kuiper Belt Objects Along the Pluto-Express Path [PDF]

, 1997
The science objective of this work is to identify objects in the Kuiper Belt which will, in the 5 years following Pluto encounter, be close to the flight path of NASA's Pluto Express.
Jewitt, David
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The effect of a water-ice mantle on dust trajectories in the Kuiper belt [PDF]

, 2023
The New Horizons spacecraft has travelled through the Solar System and has reached a distance of 55 AU as of 2023. For one of the first times, the dust flux in the outer Solar System has been measured, using the instrument Student Dust Counter (SDC ...
Gjelsvik, Amalie
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The outer solar system

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2009
The outer solar system extends beyond a heliocentric distance of 5 AU. It contains the giant planets and their systems (rings and satellites), the Kuiper belt, the comets (except those which approach episodically the inner solar system) and, at its outer
Encrenaz T.
doaj   +1 more source

Initial Results from the Southern Edgeworth-Kuiper belt Survey

, 2015
We present preliminary results of the analysis of the first 500 square degrees of the Southern Edgeworth-Kuiper belt Survey, a large sky survey which ran from January 2000 to January 2003 and comprises 2900° in total. Early tests predict that we should
Goldader, Jeffrey, Cook, Kem H, Alcock, Charles, Marshall, S., Moody, Rachel, Axelrod, Tim S   +5 more
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Processing of methane and acetylene ices by galactic cosmic rays and implications to the color diversity of Kuiper Belt objects. [PDF]

Sci Adv, 2023
Zhang C, Zhu C, Turner AM, Antonov IO, Garcia AD, Meinert C, Young LA, Jewitt DC, Kaiser RI.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Detection of Close Kuiper Belt Binaries with HST WFC3

The Planetary Science Journal
Binaries in the Kuiper Belt are common. Here we present our analysis of the Solar System Origins Legacy Survey (SSOLS) to show that using a point-spread function (PSF)-fitting method can roughly double the number of binaries identified in that data set ...
Simon B. Porter, Susan D. Benecchi, Anne J. Verbiscer, W. M. Grundy, Keith S. Noll, Alex H. Parker   +5 more
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Survey of Cryogenic Nitrogen Thermomechanical Property Data Relevant to Outer Solar System Bodies

Earth and Space Science, 2020
The outer Solar System has many bodies of interest that have continued to captivate the planetary science community, recently Triton, a captured Kuiper belt object (KBO) of Neptune, and Pluto.
Dylan Sagmiller, Jason Hartwig
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On the Early Thermal Processing of Planetesimals during and after the Giant Planet Instability

The Planetary Science Journal
Born as ice-rich planetesimals, cometary nuclei were gravitationally scattered onto their current orbits in the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud during the giant planets’ dynamical instability in the early stages of our solar system’s history.
Anastasios Gkotsinas, David Nesvorný, Aurélie Guilbert-Lepoutre, Sean N. Raymond, Nathan Kaib   +4 more
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Binaries in the Kuiper Belt

, 2007
Binaries have played a crucial role many times in the history of modern astronomy and are doing so again in the rapidly evolving exploration of the Kuiper Belt. The large fraction of transneptunian objects that are binary or multiple, 48 such systems are now known, has been an unanticipated windfall.
Noll, Keith S, Grundy, William M, Chiang, Eugene I, Margot, Jean-Luc, Kern, Susan D   +4 more
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Determining The Plane of The Kuiper Belt with OSSOS

, 2017
International audienceWe present the OSSOS-based measurement of the semi-major axes dependent orientation of the Kuiper Belt plane. A Kuiper Belt object's (KBO's) inclination can be broken down into a forced component and a free component.
Gladman, Brett, van Laerhoven, Christa L., Kavelaars, J. J., van Laerhoven, Christa, Petit, Jean-Marc, C., Volk, Kathryn   +5 more
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