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astro-ph.EP2020★ 15 cited
Constraining the final merger of contact binary(486958) Arrokoth with soft-sphere discrete element simulations
J. C. Marohnic, D. C. Richardson, W. B. McKinnon +8
The New Horizons mission has returned stunning images of the bilobate Kuiper belt object (486958) Arrokoth. It is a contact binary, formed from two intact and relatively undisturbe…
astro-ph.EP2020★ 113 cited
The solar nebula origin of (486958) Arrokoth, a primordial contact binary in the Kuiper belt
W. B. McKinnon, D. C. Richardson, J. C. Marohnic +26
The New Horizons spacecraft's encounter with the cold classical Kuiper belt object (486958) Arrokoth (formerly 2014 MU69) revealed a contact-binary planetesimal. We investigate how…