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Calculating the Area within the Orbit of Arrokoth
Undergraduate Journal of Mathematical Modeling: One + Two, 2020 The area within the orbit of the Kuiper Belt object (KBO) Arrokoth (or 2014MU69) is approximated using the corresponding ellipse. The fact that the Sun lies at a focus of the ellipse is of interest.
Aurielle Collins
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The Astronomical Journal, 2022 Within the dynamically cold low-inclination portion of the Classical Kuiper Belt, there exists a population of weakly bound binary systems with a number of unusual properties, most notable of which is their extremely wide orbital separations—beyond 7% of
Hunter M. Campbell +2 more
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Survey of Cryogenic Nitrogen Thermomechanical Property Data Relevant to Outer Solar System Bodies
Earth and Space Science, 2020 The outer Solar System has many bodies of interest that have continued to captivate the planetary science community, recently Triton, a captured Kuiper belt object (KBO) of Neptune, and Pluto.
Dylan Sagmiller, Jason Hartwig
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High-resolution Study of Planetesimal Formation by Gravitational Collapse of Pebble Clouds
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 Planetary embryos are built through the collisional growth of 10–100 km-sized objects called planetesimals, a formerly large population of objects, of which asteroids, comets, and Kuiper Belt objects represent the leftovers from planet formation in our ...
Brooke Polak, Hubert Klahr
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Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Bright Kuiper Belt Object 2000 EB173 [PDF]
, 2000 We have obtained a near-infrared spectrum of the bright Kuiper Belt object 2000 EB173; the spectrum appears featureless. The spectrum has a sufficient signal-to-noise ratio to rule out the 1.5 and 2.0 mm absorption from water ice even at the low level ...
Michael E. Brown, G. Blake, J. Kessler
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THE ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION OF KUIPER BELT OBJECTS [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2014 Accepted to the Astrophysical ...
Fraser, Wesley C. +4 more
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A single sub-kilometre Kuiper belt object from a stellar occultation in archival data [PDF]
Nature, 2009 The Kuiper belt is a remnant of the primordial Solar System. Measurements of its size distribution constrain its accretion and collisional history, and the importance of material strength of Kuiper belt objects.
H. Schlichting +7 more
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UNBIASED INCLINATION DISTRIBUTIONS FOR OBJECTS IN THE KUIPER BELT [PDF]
The Astronomical Journal, 2010 Using data from the Deep Ecliptic Survey (DES), we investigate the inclination distributions of objects in the Kuiper Belt. We present a derivation for observational bias removal and use this procedure to generate unbiased inclination distributions for Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) of different DES dynamical classes, with respect to the Kuiper Belt Plane.
Gulbis, Amanda A. S. +6 more
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Understanding the Origin of Planetary Systems: Studying the Kuiper Belt and the Dynamics of Planet Formation [PDF]
, 2009 This thesis presents theoretical and observational studies pertaining to the early solar system, planet formation and extrasolar planets. First, we explore the dynamics of protoplanet formation. We find that the growth of protoplanets may be dominated
Schlichting, Hilke Elisabeth
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On the detectability of lightcurves of Kuiper belt objects
Icarus, 2003 We present a statistical study of the detectability of lightcurves of Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs). Some Kuiper Belt objects display lightcurves that appear "flat", i.e., there are no significant brightness variations within the photometric uncertainties. Under the assumption that KBO lightcurves are mainly due to shape, the lack of brightness variations
Lacerda, Pedro, Luu, Jane
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