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A Pluto-Charon Sonata III. Growth of Charon from a Circum-Pluto Ring of Debris
Scott J. Kenyon, Benjamin C. Bromley
Current theory considers two options for the formation of the Pluto-Charon binary (Canup 2005, 2011; Desch 2015). In the `hit-and-run' model, a lower mass projectile barely hits th…
astro-ph.EP2019★ 22 cited
Ohmic heating of asteroids around magnetic stars
Benjamin C. Bromley, Scott J. Kenyon
We consider the impact of electromagnetic induction and Ohmic heating on a conducting planetary object that orbits a magnetic star. Power dissipated as heat saps orbital energy. If…
astro-ph.EP2019★ 12 cited
A Pluto--Charon Sonata: Dynamical Limits on the Masses of the Small Satellites
Scott J. Kenyon, Benjamin C. Bromley
During 2005-2012, images from Hubble Space Telescope (HST) revealed four moons orbiting Pluto-Charon (Weaver et al 2006, Showalter et al 2011, 2012). Although their orbits and geom…