Transneptunian space

B Gladman, K Volk - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
We provide a nonspecialist overview of the current state of understanding of the structure
and origin of our Solar System's transneptunian region (often called the Kuiper Belt) …

Origin and evolution of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids

WF Bottke, R Marschall, D Nesvorný… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
The origin of the Jupiter Trojan asteroids has long been a mystery. Dynamically, the
population, which is considerably smaller than the main asteroid belt, librates around …

The solar nebula origin of (486958) Arrokoth, a primordial contact binary in the Kuiper Belt

WB McKinnon, DC Richardson, JC Marohnic, JT Keane… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The close flyby of the Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth (formerly 2014
MU69) by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft revealed details of the body's structure, geology …

The collisional evolution of the primordial Kuiper Belt, its destabilized population, and the Trojan asteroids

WF Bottke, D Vokrouhlický, R Marschall… - The Planetary …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The tumultuous early era of outer solar system evolution culminated when Neptune migrated
across the primordial Kuiper Belt (PKB) and triggered a dynamical instability among the …

Color, composition, and thermal environment of Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth

WM Grundy, MK Bird, DT Britt, JC Cook, DP Cruikshank… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The New Horizons spacecraft flew past (486958) Arrokoth (provisional
designation 2014 MU69) on 1 January 2019. Arrokoth is a member of the subclass of trans …

A re-assessment of the Kuiper belt size distribution for sub-kilometer objects, revealing collisional equilibrium at small sizes

A Morbidelli, D Nesvorny, WF Bottke, S Marchi - Icarus, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work we combine several constraints provided by the crater records on Arrokoth and
the worlds of the Pluto system to compute the size-frequency distribution (SFD) of the crater …

Sublimation of ices during the early evolution of Kuiper belt objects

A Parhi, D Prialnik - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Kuiper belt objects, such as Arrokoth, the probable progenitors of short-period comets,
formed and evolved at large heliocentric distances, where the ambient temperatures appear …

The Geophysical Environment of (486958) Arrokoth—A Small Kuiper Belt Object Explored by New Horizons

JT Keane, SB Porter, RA Beyer… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
NASA's New Horizons mission performed the first flyby of a small Kuiper Belt Object
(KBO),(486958) Arrokoth on 1 January 2019. The fast flyby revealed a fascinating, flattened …

On the origin & thermal stability of Arrokoth's and Pluto's ices

CM Lisse, LA Young, DP Cruikshank, SA Sandford… - Icarus, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper we discuss in a thermodynamic, geologically empirical way the long-term
nature of the stable majority ices that could be present in Kuiper Belt object (KBO) 2014 MU …

Precise astrometry and diameters of asteroids from occultations–a data set of observations and their interpretation

D Herald, D Gault, R Anderson… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Occultations of stars by asteroids have been observed since 1961, increasing from a very
small number to now over 500 annually. We have created and regularly maintain a growing …