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Occultations by Kuiper belt objects.

, 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 ...
Michael E Brown
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Kuiper belt occultation predictions [PDF]

, 2013
Here we present observations of seven large Kuiper Belt objects. From these observations, weextract a point source catalog with ~0:01″ precision, and astrometry of our target Kuiper Belt objects with0.04-0.08″ precision within that catalog.
Langill, Phil P., Kavelaars, J. J., Hetherington, Nathan, McMillan, Russet J., Stephens, Andrew W., Boyle, Richard P., Bianco, Federica B., Keel, William C., Joner, Michael, Gwyn, Stephen, Brucker, Melissa J., Young, Leslie, Fraser, Wesley C., Lister, Tim, Trujillo, Chad, Brown, Michael E.   +15 more
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Three Classes of Kuiper Belt Objects: Theory and Observations

, 2001
As part of the Origins of Solar Systems program our team conducted a dynamically motivated search for three classes of Kuiper belt objects (distant comets near and beyond the orbit of Neptune).
Holman, Mathew J., Boyce, J.
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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, Lykawka, Patryk Sofia, Horner, Jonathan   +2 more
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The Collisional Divot in the Kuiper Belt Size Distribution [PDF]

, 2009
This paper presents the results of collisional evolution calculations for the Kuiper Belt starting from an initial size distribution similar to that produced by accretion simulations of that region—a steep power-law large object size distribution that ...
Fraser, Wesley C., Wesley C. Fraser
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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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Satellites of the largest Kuiper Belt objects [PDF]

, 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.
Le Mignant, D., Wizinowich, P. L., Trujillo, C. A., Chin, J. C. Y., Rabinowitz, D. L., Johansson, E. M., Brown, M. E., Lafon, R. E., Campbell, R. D., Summers, D. M., Bouchez, A. H., Stomski, P. J., Jr., Conrad, A., van Dam, M. A., Hartman, S. K.   +14 more
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The formation of Haumea and its family via binary merging. [PDF]

Nat Commun, 2022
Proudfoot B, Ragozzine D.
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Terrestrial planet and asteroid belt formation by Jupiter-Saturn chaotic excitation. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2023
Lykawka PS, Ito T.
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Searching for Chips of Kuiper Belt Objects in Meteorites [PDF]

, 2009
The Nice model [1&2] describes a scenario whereby the Jovian planets experienced a violent reshuffling event approx.3:9 Ga the giant planets moved, existing small body reservoirs were depleted or eliminated, and new reservoirs were created in particular ...
Zolensky, M. E., Kurihara, T., Weisberg, M. K., Le, L., Gounelle, M., Satake, W., Mikouchi, T., Ohsumi, K., Briani, G.   +8 more
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