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FindPOTATOs: Minor Planet Observation Linking Software
The Planetary Science JournalFor minor planet observations to be archived and used by the scientific community, observations of individual objects must be linked together into groups called tracklets.
C. R. Nugent +2 more
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The Astrophysical Journal Supplement SeriesTrans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) exhibit a color diversity containing a wealth of clues for understanding complex compositions and the formation history of our solar system.
Chaojiang Zhang +4 more
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Synchronous Rotation in the (120347) Salacia–Actaea System
The Planetary Science JournalWe report on roughly 16 yr of photometric monitoring of the trans-Neptunian binary system (120347) Salacia–Actaea, which provides significant evidence that Salacia and Actaea are tidally locked to the mutual orbital period in a fully synchronous ...
Cameron Collyer +10 more
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Generation of Low-inclination, Neptune-crossing Trans-Neptunian Objects by Planet Nine
The Astrophysical Journal LettersThe solar system’s distant reaches exhibit a wealth of anomalous dynamical structure, hinting at the presence of a yet-undetected, massive trans-Neptunian body—Planet Nine (P9).
Konstantin Batygin +3 more
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Efficient Detection-level Linking of Trans-Neptunian Objects via a Spherical-orbit Basis
The Planetary Science JournalDiscovering solar system objects in time-domain survey data requires linking: determining which detections observed at different times were produced by the same moving object.
Thomas R. Ruch +3 more
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Detection of Close Kuiper Belt Binaries with HST WFC3
The Planetary Science JournalBinaries in the Kuiper Belt are common. Here we present our analysis of the Solar System Origins Legacy Survey (SSOLS) to show that using a point-spread function (PSF)-fitting method can roughly double the number of binaries identified in that data set ...
Simon B. Porter +5 more
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87th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society 2025: Abstracts
Meteoritics &Planetary Science, Volume 60, Issue S1, Page 30-350, August 2025.
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A new era in solar system astronomy with JWST. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2023 Villanueva GL, Milam SN.
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Primordial Orbital Alignment of Sednoids
The Astrophysical Journal LettersWe examined the past history of the three most detached trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs)—Sedna, 2012 VP _113 , and Leleakuhonua (2015 TG _387 )—the three clearest members of the dynamical class known as sednoids, with high perihelia distances q .
Yukun Huang, Brett Gladman
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Weywot, an Unusually Low-albedo Satellite in the Trans-Neptunian Region
The Astrophysical Journal LettersWeywot is the largest satellite of the candidate dwarf planet Quaoar, which also hosts a remarkable ring system located beyond its Roche limit—a configuration that challenges conventional understanding of ring dynamics.
Estela Fernández-Valenzuela +42 more
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