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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…
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…
The nitrogen cycles on Pluto over seasonal and astronomical timescales
T. Bertrand, F. Forget, O. M. Umurhan +13
Pluto's landscape is shaped by the cycles of the volatile ices covering its surface. In particular, the Sputnik Planitia (SP) ice sheet displays a large diversity of terrains, with…