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Satellites of the Largest Kuiper Belt Objects [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2006 We have searched the four brightest objects in the Kuiper belt for the presence of satellites using the newly commissioned Keck Observatory Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics system. Satellites are seen around three of the four objects: Pluto (whose satellite Charon is well-known), 2003 EL61, and 2003 UB313. The object 2005 FY9, the brightest Kuiper belt
Brown, M. E. +14 more
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Organic Components of Small Bodies in the Outer Solar System: Some Results of the New Horizons Mission [PDF]
Life, 2020 The close encounters of the Pluto–Charon system and the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth (formerly 2014 MU69) by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015 and 2019, respectively, have given new perspectives on the most distant planetary bodies yet explored ...
Dale P. Cruikshank +2 more
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Resonant Kuiper belt objects: a review. [PDF]
Geosci Lett, 2019 Abstract Our understanding of the history of the solar system has undergone a revolution in recent years, owing to new theoretical insights into the origin of Pluto and the discovery of the Kuiper belt and its rich dynamical structure.
Malhotra R.
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THE DENSITY OF MID-SIZED KUIPER BELT OBJECT 2002 UX25 AND THE FORMATION OF THE DWARF PLANETS [PDF]
, 2013 The formation of the largest objects in the Kuiper belt, with measured densities of ∼1.5 g cm−3 and higher, from the coagulation of small bodies, with measured densities below 1 g cm−3, is difficult to explain without invoking significant porosity in the
Michael E. Brown
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Water Ice on the Satellite of Kuiper Belt Object 2003 EL 61 [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal, 2006 We have obtained a near-infrared spectrum of the brightest satellite of the large Kuiper Belt object 2003 EL61. The spectrum has absorption features at 1.5 and 2.0 μm, indicating that water ice is present on the surface.
K. Barkume +2 more
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A Search for Bright Kuiper Belt Objects [PDF]
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 1998 AbstractSince 1992, 60 large Kuiper Belt objects have been detected by ground-based telescopes. Previous surveys which have detected objects have searched approximately 60□° and detected objects with magnitudes 20·6 < mR < 25·0. However, the luminosity function of brighter Kuiper Belt objects is not well determined.
Michael J. I. Brown, R. L. Webster
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A collisional family of icy objects in the Kuiper belt [PDF]
Nature, 2007 The small bodies in the Solar System are thought to have been highly affected by collisions and erosion. In the asteroid belt, direct evidence of the effects of large collisions can be seen in the existence of separate families of asteroids--a family consists of many asteroids with similar orbits and, frequently, similar surface properties, with each ...
Brown, Michael E. +3 more
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A kilometre-sized Kuiper belt object discovered by stellar occultation using amateur telescopes
Nature Astronomy, 2019 Kohji Tsumura, Ko Arimatsu
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The fate of particles in the dynamical environment around Kuiper-Belt object (486958) Arrokoth [PDF]
Astrophysics and Space Science, 2022 The contact binary Kuiper-Belt object (486958) Arrokoth, targeted by the New Horizons mission, has a unique slope pattern, which is a result of its irregular bilobate surface shape and high spin period.
A. Amarante, Othon C. Winter
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Occultations by Kuiper belt objects [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 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 ...
M. J. I. Brown, R. L. Webster
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