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VOLATILE LOSS AND CLASSIFICATION OF KUIPER BELT OBJECTS [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 20 pages, 5 figures; submitted to ...
Johnson, Robert E. +4 more
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Ring formation around giant planets by tidal disruption of a single passing large Kuiper belt object [PDF]
, 2016 The origin of rings around giant planets remains elusive. Saturn’s rings are massive and made of 90–95% of water ice with a mass of ∼1019 kg. In contrast, the much less massive rings of Uranus and Neptune are dark and likely to have higher rock fraction.
R. Hyodo +3 more
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Application Prospect of Fission-Powered Spacecraft in Solar System Exploration Missions
Space: Science & Technology, 2021 Fission power is a promising technology, and it has been proposed for several future space uses. It is being considered for high-power missions whose goal is to explore the solar system and even beyond.
Y. Xia +5 more
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Amateur telescopes discover a kilometre-sized Kuiper belt object from stellar occultation [PDF]
, 2019 Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) are thought to be the remnant of the early solar system, and their size distribution provides an opportunity to explore the formation and evolution of the outer solar system.
Ko Arimatsu +9 more
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The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 Using Fisher information matrices, we forecast the uncertainties σ _M on the measurement of a “Planet X” at heliocentric distance d _X via its tidal gravitational field’s action on the known planets.
Daniel C. H. Gomes +4 more
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THE SMALL NUMBERS OF LARGE KUIPER BELT OBJECTS [PDF]
The Astronomical Journal, 2013 Accepted to ...
Schwamb, Megan E. +2 more
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CHAOTIC DIFFUSION OF RESONANT KUIPER BELT OBJECTS [PDF]
The Astronomical Journal, 2009 We carried out extensive numerical orbit integrations to probe the long-term chaotic dynamics of the two strongest mean motion resonances of Neptune in the Kuiper belt, the 3:2 (Plutinos) and 2:1 (Twotinos). Our primary results include a computation of the relative volumes of phase space characterized by large- and small-resonance libration amplitudes,
Tiscareno, Matthew S., Malhotra, Renu
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Detection of Methane on Kuiper Belt Object (50000) Quaoar [PDF]
, 2007 The near-infrared spectrum of (50000) Quaoar obtained at the Keck Observatory shows distinct absorption features of crystalline water ice, solid methane, and ethane, and possibly other higher order hydrocarbons.
E. Schaller, Michael E. Brown
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Euclid ASTEROSEISMOLOGY AND KUIPER BELT OBJECTS
Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society, 2016 Euclid, which is primarily a dark-energy/cosmology mission, may have a microlensing component, consisting of perhaps four dedicated one-month campaigns aimed at the Galactic bulge. We show that such a program would yield excellent auxilliary science, including asteroseimology detections for about 100,000 giant stars, and detection of about 1000 Kuiper ...
Gould, Andrew +2 more
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Candidate Members and Age Estimate of the Family of Kuiper Belt Object 2003 EL61 [PDF]
, 2007 The collisional family of Kuiper Belt object (KBO) 2003 EL61 opens the possibility for many interesting new studies of processes important in the formation and evolution of the outer solar system. As the first family in the Kuiper Belt, it can be studied
D. Ragozzine, Michael E. Brown
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