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Moons Are Planets: Scientific Usefulness Versus Cultural Teleology in the Taxonomy of Planetary Science
Philip T. Metzger, William M. Grundy, Mark Sykes +5
We argue that taxonomical concept development is vital for planetary science as in all branches of science, but its importance has been obscured by unique historical developments.…
Ultraviolet-Based Science in the Solar System: Advances and Next Steps
Amanda R. Hendrix, Tracy M. Becker, Dennis Bodewits +25
We review the importance of recent UV observations of solar system targets and discuss the need for further measurements, instrumentation and laboratory work in the coming decade.…
OSSOS IXX: Testing Early Solar System Dynamical Models using OSSOS Centaur Detections
David Nesvorny, David Vokrouhlicky, Alan S. Stern +9
We use published models of the early Solar System evolution with a slow, long-range and grainy migration of Neptune to predict the orbital element distributions and the number of m…
Pluto Follow On Missions: Background, Rationale, and New Mission Recommendations
Stuart J. Robbins, S. Alan Stern, Richard Binzel +5
The first exploration of Pluto was motivated by (i) the many intriguing aspects of this body, its atmosphere, and its giant impact binary-planet formation; as well as (ii) the scie…
High-Precision Orbit Fitting and Uncertainty Analysis of (486958) 2014 MU69
Simon B. Porter, Marc W. Buie, Alex H. Parker +11
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will conduct a close flyby of the cold classical Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) designated (486958) 2014 MU69 on January 1, 2019. At a heliocentric distanc…
The Reclassification of Asteroids from Planets to Non-Planets
Philip T. Metzger, Mark V. Sykes, Alan Stern +1
It is often claimed that asteroids' sharing of orbits is the reason they were re-classified from planets to non-planets. A critical review of the literature from the 19th Century t…