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The Compositions of Kuiper Belt Objects
Michael E. Brown
Objects in the Kuiper belt are small and far away thus difficult to study in detail even with the best telescopes available at earth. For much of the early history of the Kuiper be…
Instability-Driven Dynamical Evolution Model of a Primordially 5 Planet Outer Solar System
Konstantin Batygin, Michael E. Brown, Hayden Betts
Over the last decade, evidence has mounted that the solar system's observed state can be favorably reproduced in the context of an instability-driven dynamical evolution model, suc…
Reassessing the formation of the inner Oort cloud in an embedded star cluster
R. Brasser, M. J. Duncan, H. F. Levison +2
We re-examine the formation of the inner Oort comet cloud while the Sun was in its birth cluster with the aid of numerical simulations. This work is a continuation of an earlier st…
A hypothesis for the color diversity of the Kuiper belt
M. E. Brown, E. L. Schaller, W. C. Fraser
We propose a chemical and dynamical process to explain the surface colors of the Kuiper belt. In our hypothesis, the initial bulk compositions of the bodies themselves can be quite…
Retention of a Primordial Cold Classical Kuiper Belt in an Instability-Driven Model of Solar System Formation
Konstantin Batygin, Michael E. Brown, Wesley C. Fraser
The cold classical population of the Kuiper belt exhibits a wide variety of unique physical characteristics, which collectively suggest that its dynamical coherence has been mainta…