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Great Expectations: Plans and Predictions for New Horizons Encounter With Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 (“Ultima Thule”) [PDF]

Geophysical Research Letters, 2018
The New Horizons encounter with the cold classical Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 (informally named “Ultima Thule,” hereafter Ultima) on 1 January 2019 will be the first time a spacecraft has ever closely observed one of the free‐orbiting small denizens of
Jeffrey M. Moore, William B. McKinnon, Dale P. Cruikshank, G. Randall Gladstone, John R. Spencer, S. Alan Stern, Harold A. Weaver, Kelsi N. Singer, Mark R. Showalter, William M. Grundy, Ross A. Beyer, Oliver L. White, Richard P. Binzel, Marc W. Buie, Bonnie J. Buratti, Andrew F. Cheng, Carly Howett, Cathy B. Olkin, Alex H. Parker, Simon B. Porter, Paul M. Schenk, Henry B. Throop, Anne J. Verbiscer, Leslie A. Young, Susan D. Benecchi, Veronica J. Bray, Carrie L. Chavez, Rajani D. Dhingra, Alan D. Howard, Tod R. Lauer, C. M. Lisse, Stuart J. Robbins, Kirby D. Runyon, Orkan M. Umurhan   +33 more
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Initial results from the New Horizons exploration of 2014 MU 69 , a small Kuiper Belt object [PDF]

Science, 2019
New Horizons flies past MU69 After flying past Pluto in 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft shifted course to encounter (486958) 2014 MU69, a much smaller body about 30 kilometers in diameter.
S A Stern, Chloe Beddingfield, William Folkner   +2 more
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THE SURFACE COMPOSITION OF LARGE KUIPER BELT OBJECT 2007 OR10 [PDF]

Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2011
We present photometry and spectra of the large Kuiper belt object 2007 OR10. The data show significant near-infrared absorption features due to water ice.
W C Fraser, Adam J Burgasser
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The unusual Kuiper belt object 2003 SQ317 [PDF]

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013
We report photometric observations of Kuiper belt object 2013 SQ317 obtained between 2011 August 21 and 2011 November 1 at the 3.58 m New Technology Telescope, La Silla.
P. Lacerda, A. McNeill, N. Peixinho
semanticscholar   +8 more sources

The Properties and Origin of Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth's Large Mounds [PDF]

The Planetary Science Journal, 2023
We report on a study of the mounds that dominate the appearance of Kuiper Belt Object (486958) Arrokoth's larger lobe, named Wenu. We compare the geological context of these mounds and measure and intercompare their shapes, sizes/orientations ...
S. A. Stern, O. L. White, W. M. Grundy, B. A. Keeney, J. D. Hofgartner, D. Nesvorný, W. B. McKinnon, D. C. Richardson, J. C. Marohnic, A. J. Verbiscer, S. D. Benecchi, P. M. Schenk, J. M. Moore, The New Horizons Geology and Geophysics Investigation Team   +13 more
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The Geophysical Environment of (486958) Arrokoth—A Small Kuiper Belt Object Explored by New Horizons

Journal of Geophysical Research E: Planets, 2022
NASA's New Horizons mission performed the first flyby of a small Kuiper Belt Object (KBO), (486958) Arrokoth on 1 January 2019. The fast flyby revealed a fascinating, flattened, contact binary replete with a variety of unexpected geologic terrains ...
S A Stern, Orkan Umurhan, Jeffrey Moore   +2 more
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The geology and geophysics of Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth [PDF]

Science, 2020
Examining Arrokoth The New Horizons spacecraft flew past the Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth (also known as 2014 MU69) in January 2019. Because of the great distance to the outer Solar System and limited bandwidth, it will take until late 2020 to ...
J. Spencer, S. Stern, J. Moore, H. Weaver, K. Singer, C. Olkin, A. Verbiscer, W. McKinnon, J. Parker, R. Beyer, J. Keane, T. Lauer, S. Porter, O. White, B. Buratti, M. El-Maarry, C. Lisse, A. Parker, H. Throop, S. Robbins, O. Umurhan, R. Binzel, D. Britt, M. Buie, A. Cheng, D. Cruikshank, H. Elliott, G. Gladstone, W. Grundy, M. Hill, M. Horányi, D. Jennings, J. Kavelaars, I. Linscott, D. McComas, R. McNutt, S. Protopapa, D. Reuter, P. Schenk, M. Showalter, L. Young, A. Zangari, A. Abedin, C. Beddingfield, S. Benecchi, E. Bernardoni, C. Bierson, D. Borncamp, V. Bray, A. Chaikin, R. Dhingra, C. Fuentes, T. Fuse, P. Gay, S. Gwyn, D. Hamilton, J. Hofgartner, M. Holman, A. Howard, C. Howett, H. Karoji, D. Kaufmann, M. Kinczyk, B. May, M. Mountain, M. Patzold, J. Petit, M. Piquette, I. Reid, H. Reitsema, K. Runyon, S. Sheppard, J. Stansberry, T. Stryk, P. Tanga, D. Tholen, D. Trilling, L. Wasserman   +77 more
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The Chemical Composition of an Extrasolar Kuiper-Belt-Object [PDF]

The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2017
The Kuiper Belt of our solar system is a source of short-period comets that may have delivered water and other volatiles to Earth and the other terrestrial planets. However, the distribution of water and other volatiles in extrasolar planetary systems is
Si-Yi Xu, B. Zuckerman, P. Dufour, Edward D. Young, B. Klein, M. Jura   +5 more
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The visible and thermal light curve of the large Kuiper belt object (50000) Quaoar [PDF]

Astronomy and Astrophysics
Recent stellar occultations have allowed accurate instantaneous size and apparent shape determinations of the large Kuiper belt object (50000) Quaoar and the detection of two rings with spatially variable optical depths.
András Pal, Miriam Rengel, Thomas Mueller   +2 more
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The Shape Distribution Of Kuiper Belt Objects [PDF]

Earth, Moon, and Planets, 2003
If we assume that the periodic brightness variations in a Kuiper Belt lightcurve are determined only by their aspherical shapes and the observing geomtry, the fraction of detectable Kuiper Belt lightcurves and the lightcurve amplitude distribution can be used to constrain the shapes of Kuiper Belt objects.
Jane Luu, Pedro Lacerda
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