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most citedColor, Composition, and Thermal Environment of Kuiper Belt Object (486958) Arrokoth

86 citations · 252 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.EP2020

Cometary ions detected by the Cassini spacecraft 6.5 au downstream of Comet 153P/Ikeya-Zhang

Geraint H. Jones, Heather A. Elliott, David J. McComas +5

During March-April 2002, while between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft detected a significant enhancement in pickup proton flux. The most likely explanatio…

astro-ph.IM2020

The Search for MeV Electrons 2-45 AU from the Sun with the Alice Instrument Microchannel Plate Detector Aboard New Horizons

B. A. Keeney, M. Versteeg, J. Wm. Parker +14

The Alice UV spectrograph aboard NASA's New Horizons mission is sensitive to MeV electrons that penetrate the instrument's thin aluminum housing and interact with its microchannel…

astro-ph.EP2020

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

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

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…

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Color, Composition, and Thermal Environment of Kuiper Belt Object (486958) Arrokoth

W. M. Grundy, M. K. Bird, D. T. Britt +46

The outer Solar System object (486958) Arrokoth (provisional designation 2014 MU) has been largely undisturbed since its formation. We study its surface composition using da…