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Color, composition, and thermal environment 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 ...
W. Grundy, M. Bird, D. Britt, J. Cook, D. Cruikshank, C. Howett, S. Krijt, I. Linscott, C. Olkin, A. Parker, S. Protopapa, M. Ruaud, O. Umurhan, L. Young, C. D. Dalle Ore, J. Kavelaars, J. Keane, Y. Pendleton, S. Porter, F. Scipioni, J. Spencer, S. Stern, A. Verbiscer, H. Weaver, R. Binzel, M. Buie, B. Buratti, A. Cheng, A. Earle, H. Elliott, L. Gabasova, G. Gladstone, M. Hill, M. Horányi, D. Jennings, A. Lunsford, D. McComas, W. McKinnon, R. McNutt, J. Moore, J. Parker, E. Quirico, D. Reuter, P. Schenk, B. Schmitt, M. Showalter, K. Singer, G. Weigle, A. Zangari   +48 more
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Water Ice on Kuiper Belt Object 1996 TO66

, 1999
The 1.40-2.40 micron spectrum of Kuiper Belt object (KBO) 1996 TO66 was measured at the Keck Observatory in September 1998. It's spectrum shows the strong absorptions near 1.5 and 2.0 micron characteristic of water ice--the first such detection on a ...
Robert H. Brown, D. Cruikshank, Y. Pendleton   +2 more
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What If Planet Nine Has Satellites?

The Astrophysical Journal, 2023
In the past decade, numerical simulations started to reveal the possible existence of Planet Nine in our solar system. The Planet Nine scenario can provide an excellent explanation for the clustering in orbital elements for Kuiper Belt objects.
Man Ho Chan
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Photometry of Kuiper belt object (486958) Arrokoth from New Horizons LORRI [PDF]

, 2020
On January 1st 2019, the New Horizons spacecraft flew by the classical Kuiper belt object (486958) Arrokoth (provisionally designated 2014 MU69), possibly the most primitive object ever explored by a spacecraft.
J. Hofgartner, B. Buratti, S. Benecchi, R. Beyer, A. Cheng, J. Keane, T. Lauer, C. Olkin, J. Parker, K. Singer, J. Spencer, S. Stern, A. Verbiscer, H. Weaver, New Horizons Geology, G. Team, New Horizons Composition Team   +16 more
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Photometric Survey of Neptune's Trojan Asteroids. I. The Color Distribution

The Planetary Science Journal, 2023
In 2018, Jewitt identified the “The Trojan Color Conundrum,” namely that Neptune's Trojan asteroids (NTs) had no ultrared members, unlike the the nearby Kuiper Belt.
Larissa Markwardt, Hsing Wen Lin, David Gerdes, Fred C. Adams   +3 more
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Surface dynamics, equilibrium points and individual lobes of the Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth [PDF]

, 2020
The New Horizons space probe led the first close flyby of one of the most primordial and distant objects left over from the formation of the solar system, the contact binary Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth, which is composed of two progenitors, the ...
A. Amarante, O. Winter
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The Hot Main Kuiper Belt Size Distribution from OSSOS

The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023
Using the absolute detection calibration and abundant detections of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey project, we provide population measurements for the main Kuiper Belt.
Jean-Marc Petit, Brett Gladman, J. J. Kavelaars, Michele T. Bannister, Mike Alexandersen, Kathryn Volk, Ying-Tung Chen   +6 more
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Effect of H2S on the Near-infrared Spectrum of Irradiation Residue and Applications to the Kuiper Belt Object (486958) Arrokoth

Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2021
On 2019 January 1, the New Horizons spacecraft flew by (486958) Arrokoth, a small body in the Kuiper Belt that is the most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft.
A. Mahjoub, Michael E. Brown, M. Poston, R. Hodyss, B. Ehlmann, J. Blacksberg, M. Choukroun, J. Eiler, K. Hand   +8 more
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Simultaneous visible-near IR photometric study of Kuiper Belt Object surfaces with the ESO/Very Large Telescopes

Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2004
H Boehnhardt
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DYNAMICAL IMPLANTATION OF OBJECTS IN THE KUIPER BELT [PDF]

The Astronomical Journal, 2014
Several models have been suggested in the past to describe the dynamical formation of hot Kuiper Belt objects (hereafter Hot Classicals or HCs for short). Here, we discuss a dynamical mechanism that allows orbits to evolve from the primordial planetesimal disk at 35?AU to reach the orbital region now occupied by HCs.
Brasil, P. I. O., Nesvorný, D., Gomes, R. S.   +2 more
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