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astro-ph.EP2014★ 12 cited
On the Roles of Escape Erosion and the Relaxation of Craters on Pluto
S. Alan Stern, Simon Porter, Amanda Zangari
Pluto and its satellites will be the most distant objects ever reconnoitered when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft conducts its intensive flyby of this system in 2015. The size-frequ…
astro-ph.EP2014★ 11 cited
Ejecta Transfer in the Pluto System
Simon Porter, William Grundy
The small satellites of the Pluto system (Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra) have very low surface escape velocities, and impacts should therefore eject a large amount of material fro…