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most citedInitial results from the New Horizons exploration of 2014 MU69, a small Kuiper Belt Object

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astro-ph.EP2024★ 41 cited

A Contact Binary Satellite of the Asteroid (152830) Dinkinesh

Harold F. Levison, Simone Marchi, Keith S. Noll +3

Asteroids with diameters less than about 5 km have complex histories because they are small enough for radiative torques, YORP, to be a notable factor in their evolution. (152830)…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 1 cited

Spatial Distribution of Ultraviolet Emission from Cometary Activity at 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

John W. Noonan, Dominique Bockelée-Morvan, Paul D. Feldman +16

The Alice ultraviolet spectrograph on board the \textit{Rosetta} orbiter provided the first near-nucleus ultraviolet observations of a cometary coma from arrival at comet 67P/Chury…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 8 cited

Analysis of Hybrid Gas-Dust Outbursts Observed at 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

John W. Noonan, Giovanna Rinaldi, Paul D. Feldman +14

Cometary outbursts offer a valuable window into the composition of comet nuclei with their forceful ejection of dust and volatiles in explosive events, revealing the interior compo…

astro-ph.EP2021

Persephone: A Pluto-System Orbiter and Kuiper Belt Explorer

Carly Howett, Stuart Robbins, Bryan J. Holler +40

Persephone is a NASA concept mission study that addresses key questions raised by New Horizons' encounters with Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs), with arguably the most important being "…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 175 cited

Initial results from the New Horizons exploration of 2014 MU69, a small Kuiper Belt Object

S. A. Stern, H. A. Weaver, J. R. Spencer +202

The Kuiper Belt is a distant region of the Solar System. On 1 January 2019, the New Horizons spacecraft flew close to (486958) 2014 MU69, a Cold Classical Kuiper Belt Object, a cla…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 1 cited

Upper Limits for Emissions in the Coma of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Near Perihelion as Measured by Rosetta's Alice Far-Ultraviolet Spectrograph

B. A. Keeney, S. A. Stern, R. J. Vervack +13

The Alice far-UV imaging spectrograph (700-2050 A) acquired over 70,000 spectral images during Rosetta's 2-year escort mission, including over 20,000 in the months surrounding peri…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 5 cited

Stellar Occultation by Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Observed with Rosetta's Alice Far-Ultraviolet Spectrograph

B. A. Keeney, S. A. Stern, P. D. Feldman +13

Following our previous detection of ubiquitous H2O and O2 absorption against the far-UV continuum of stars located near the nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, we present a…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 31 cited

HO and O Absorption in the Coma of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Measured by the Alice Far-Ultraviolet Spectrograph on Rosetta

Brian A. Keeney, S. Alan Stern, Michael F. A'Hearn +10

We have detected HO and O absorption against the far-UV continuum of stars located on lines of sight near the nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko using the Alice ima…