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The Largest Kuiper Belt Objects

, 2008
While for the first decade of the study of the Kuiper belt, a gap existed between the sizes of the relatively small and faint Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) that were being studied and the largest known KBO.
Brown, Michael E.
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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
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Occultations by Kuiper belt objects.

, 1997
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 the objects were relegated to ...
Michael E Brown
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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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An introduction to the Kuiper Belt dynamics and collisional evolution

, 2010
The existence of an outer belt of small bodies in the Solar System has been inferred for long. Since the first direct observation of a Kuiper Belt Object in 1992, an intensive observational and modeling effort has been made to understand the origin and ...
S. Charnoz
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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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The Collisional Divot in the Kuiper Belt Size Distribution [PDF]

, 2009
This paper presents the results of collisional evolution calculations for the Kuiper Belt starting from an initial size distribution similar to that produced by accretion simulations of that region—a steep power-law large object size distribution that ...
Fraser, Wesley C., Wesley C. Fraser
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Nomenclature in Kuiper Belt [PDF]

Highlights of Astronomy, 2002
AbstractGiven the advances in our understanding of the dynamical structure in the Kuiper Belt since 1990, this paper re-examines nomenclature issues regarding dynamical structures in the belt.
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