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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 +5 more
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Challenge in Arrokoth’s Single Merger to Achieve the Shape’s Principal Axis Configuration
The Planetary Science JournalThe cold-classical Kuiper Belt Object 486958 Arrokoth is a contact binary composed of two flattened lobes, Weeyo and Wenu, closely aligned along their principal axes, despite each lobe having a highly irregular shape.
Ketan Kamat +2 more
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Kuiper Belt formation via grainy planetary migration
We used N-body simulations to model the 4.5 Gyr orbital evolution of the early Kuiper Belt, incorporating a massive protoplanetary disc, the four giant planets, and 1500 primordial Pluto-class bodies ('Plutos') that drove Neptune's grainy migration.
Bernardinelli, Pedro +2 more
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Exploring the Kuiper Belt: Design of trajectories for long-term Kuiper Belt exploration
, 2020 Previous trajectory proposals with the purpose of exploring the Kuiper Belt have been limited to identifying trajectories to fly by a single pre-selected Kuiper Belt Object (KBO).
van der Heyden, Laurens (author)
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TESS Discovers a Second System of Transiting Exocomets in the Extreme Debris Disk of RZ Psc
The Astrophysical Journal LettersWe present the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) discovery of only the second system of transiting exocomets with a sufficient number of events to measure the size distribution in the RZ Psc system, enabling comparisons with the β Pictoris and
Adalyn Gibson +11 more
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From Kuiper Belt Object To Cometary Nucleus
, 2007 We now realise that many small body populations are related through a common origin in the Kuiper Belt, notably the Centaurs, the Jupiter Family Comets and certain dead-comets.
David Jewitt Institute, David Jewitt
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SPHEREx Pre-perihelion Mapping of H2O, CO2, and CO in Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS
The Astrophysical Journal LettersFrom 2025 August 1 to August 15 UT, the SPHEREx spacecraft observed interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. Using R = 40–130 spectrophotometry at λ = 0.7–5 μ m, lightcurves, spectra, and imaging of 3I were obtained.
Carey M. Lisse +37 more
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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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The Radial Distribution of the Kuiper Belt [PDF]
, 2001 We examine the radial distribution of the Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) using a method that is insensitive to observational bias effects. This technique allows the use of the discovery distances of all KBOs, independent of orbital classification or ...
Trujillo, Chadwick A. +3 more
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