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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…
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…