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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.EP2020

Col-OSSOS: Compositional homogeneity of three Kuiper belt binaries

Michael Marsset, Wesley C. Fraser, Michele T. Bannister +10

The surface characterization of Trans-Neptunian Binaries (TNBs) is key to understanding the properties of the disk of planetesimals from which these objects formed. In the optical…

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.EP2020★ 102 cited

The Geology and Geophysics of Kuiper Belt Object (486958) Arrokoth

J. R. Spencer, S. A. Stern, J. M. Moore +75

The Cold Classical Kuiper Belt, a class of small bodies in undisturbed orbits beyond Neptune, are primitive objects preserving information about Solar System formation. The New Hor…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 17 cited

Photometry of Kuiper Belt Object (486958) Arrokoth from New Horizons LORRI

Jason D. Hofgartner, Bonnie J. Buratti, Susan D. Benecchi +14

On January 1st 2019, the New Horizons spacecraft flew by the classical Kuiper belt object (486958) Arrokoth (provisionally designated 2014 MU69), possibly the most primitive object…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 52 cited

Size and Shape Constraints of (486958) Arrokoth from Stellar Occultations

Marc W. Buie, Simon B. Porter, Peter Tamblyn +130

We present the results from four stellar occultations by (486958) Arrokoth, the flyby target of the New Horizons extended mission. Three of the four efforts led to positive detecti…