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The Formation of Bilobate Comet Shapes through Sublimative Torques
Taylor K. Safrit, Jordan K. Steckloff, Amanda S. Bosh +4
Recent spacecraft and radar observations have found that ~70 percent of short-period comet nuclei, mostly Jupiter-family comets (JFCs), have bilobate shapes (two masses connected b…
Contemporaneous Multi-Wavelength and Precovery Observations of Active Centaur P/2019 LD2 (ATLAS
Theodore Kareta, Laura M. Woodney, Charles Schambeau +10
Gateway Centaur and Jupiter co-orbital P/2019 LD2 (ATLAS) (Sarid et al. 2019) provides the first opportunity to observe the migration of a Solar System small body from a Centaur or…
On the Origin and Thermal Stability of Arrokoths and Plutos Ices
C. M. Lisse, L. A. Young, D. P. Cruikshank +30
We discuss in a thermodynamic, geologically empirical way the long-term nature of the stable majority ices that could be present in Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 after its 4.6 Gyr r…
Strength In Diversity: Small Bodies as the Most Important Objects in Planetary Sciences
Laura M. Woodney, Andrew S. Rivkin, Walter Harris +9
Small bodies, the unaccreted leftovers of planetary formation, are often mistaken for the leftovers of planetary science in the sense that they are everything else after the planet…
The Sublimative Evolution of (486958) Arrokoth
Jordan K. Steckloff, Carey M. Lisse, Taylor K. Safrit +3
We consider the history of New Horizons target (486958) Arrokoth in the context of its sublimative evolution. Shortly after the Sun's protoplanetary disk (PPD) cleared, the newly i…
Stratification Dynamics of Titan's Lakes via Methane Evaporation
Jordan K. Steckloff, Jason M. Soderblom, Kendra K. Farnsworth +8
Saturn's moon Titan is the only extraterrestrial body known to host stable lakes and a hydrological cycle. Titan's lakes predominantly contain liquid methane, ethane, and nitrogen,…