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Implications Regarding the Energetics Of the Collisional Formation of Kuiper Belt Satellites...
IMPLICATIONS REGARDING THE ENERGETICS OF THE COLLISIONAL FORMATION OF KUIPER BELT SATELLITES...
Title: Implications Regarding the Energetics Of the Collisional Formation of Kuiper Belt Satellites Authors: S. A. Stern Categories: physics.astro-ph Astrophysics
Also, Neptune's satellites, Triton and Nereid, and Saturn's satellite, Phoebe are in unusual orbits and may be captured Kuiper belt objects.
Recently, however, 2 small satellites around Pluto were also discovered. We suspect that other Kuiper belt objects (at least large Kuiper belt objects) might also have multiple satellite systems, but ...
The big question, then, is how many new planets are there in the Kuiper belt, a region of rocky/icy bodies beyond Neptune, and the home of Pluto and 2003 UB313 ("the 10th planet").
Reflecting on the Kuiper belt. (Astronomy).(origin, size of satellites in Kuiper Belt as determined by surface reflectivity )(Brief Article) ...find Science News articles. Over the past 2 years, ...
JPL, CalTech, NASA Larger illustration. The Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt includes Pluto and other icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune.
1. Tombaugh, C. W. in Planets and Satellites (eds Kuiper G. P. & Middlehurst, B. M.) 12−30 (Univ.
First Rotation Period of a Kuiper Belt Object Measured [1] ... The Kuiper Belt is a zone outside the orbits of Neptune and Pluto in which icy solar system objects were expected to be present;
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