Beyond Point Masses. II. Non-Keplerian Shape Effects are Detectable in Several TNO Binaries

Benjamin C. N. Proudfoot, Darin A. Ragozzine, Meagan L. Thatcher +60

About 40 transneptunian binaries (TNBs) have fully determined orbits with about 10 others being solved except for breaking the mirror ambiguity. Despite decades of study almost all…