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most citedThe New Horizons Pluto Kuiper belt Mission: An Overview with Historical Context

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astro-ph20062 cited

Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 with Alice/Rosetta during the Deep Impact Encounter

Paul D. Feldman, S. Alan Stern, Andrew J. Steffl +5

We report on spectroscopic observations of periodic comet 9P/Tempel 1 by the Alice ultraviolet spectrograph on the Rosetta spacecraft in conjunction with NASA's Deep Impact mission…

astro-ph200638 cited

First Constraints on Rings in the Pluto System

A. J. Steffl, S. A. Stern

Simple theoretical calculations have suggested that small body impacts onto Pluto's newly discovered small satellites, Nix and Hydra, are capable of generating time-variable rings…

astro-ph20065 cited

The Positions, Colors, and Photometric Variability of Pluto's Small Satellites from HST Observations 2005-2006

S. A. Stern, M. J. Mutchler, H. A. Weaver +1

Pluto's two small satellites, temporarily designated S/2005 P 1 and S/2005 P 2, were observed on four dates (15.1 and 18.1 May 2005, 15.7 February 2006, and 2.8 March 2006) using t…

astro-ph200688 cited

Alice: The Rosetta Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph

S. A. Stern, D. C. Slater, J. Scherrer +8

We describe the design, performance and scientific objectives of the NASA-funded ALICE instrument aboard the ESA Rosetta asteroid flyby/comet rendezvous mission. ALICE is a lightwe…

astro-ph2006

The Discovery of Two New Satellites of Pluto

H. A. Weaver, S. A. Stern, M. J. Mutchler +6

Pluto's first known moon, Charon, was discovered in 1978 (Christy 1978) and has a diameter about half that of Pluto (Buie 1992,Young 1994, Sicardy 2005), which makes it larger rela…