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Rotation and Mutual Eclipse Events Season in the Kuiper Belt: (524366) 2001 XR
Audrey Thirouin, William M. Grundy, Scott S. Sheppard +3
(524366) 2001 XR is a dynamically Cold Classical Kuiper Belt Object that is a nearly equal-sized wide binary whose upcoming mutual events season makes it a particularly val…
Logos-Zoe: A contact binary triple system in the trans-neptunian belt
Audrey Thirouin, Keith S. Noll, William M. Grundy +3
The trans-neptunian object (58534) 1997 CQ (a.k.a. Logos) is a resolved wide binary in the dynamically Cold Classical population. With Hubble Space Telescope resolved observ…
Detection of Close Kuiper Belt Binaries with HST WFC3
Simon B. Porter, Susan D. Benecchi, Anne J. Verbiscer +3
Binaries in the Kuiper Belt are common. Here we present our analysis of the Solar System Origins Legacy Survey (SSOLS) to show that using a PSF-fitting method can roughly double th…
Detection of Rotational Acceleration of Bennu using HST Lightcurve Observations
Michael C. Nolan, Ellen S. Howell, Daniel J. Scheeres +7
We observed the near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu from the ground in 1999 and 2005, and with the Hubble Space Telescope in 2012, to constrain its rotation rate. The data reveal an…
The Mutual Orbit, Mass, and Density of the Large Transneptunian Binary System Varda and Ilmarë
W. M. Grundy, S. B. Porter, S. D. Benecchi +7
From observations by the Hubble Space Telescope, Keck II Telescope, and Gemini North Telescope, we have determined the mutual orbit of the large transneptunian object (174567) Vard…
Rotational properties of the binary and non-binary populations in the Trans-Neptunian belt
A. Thirouin, K. S. Noll, J. L. Ortiz +1
We present results for the short-term variability of Binary Trans-Neptunian Objects (BTNOs). We performed CCD photometric observations using the 3.58 m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo…
The Orbit of Transneptunian Binary Manwë and Thorondor and their Upcoming Mutual Events
W. M. Grundy, S. D. Benecchi, S. B. Porter +1
A new Hubble Space Telescope observation of the 7:4 resonant transneptunian binary system (385446) Manwë has shown that, of two previously reported solutions for the orbit of its s…
Five New and Three Improved Mutual Orbits of Transneptunian Binaries
W. M. Grundy, K. S. Noll, F. Nimmo +7
We present three improved and five new mutual orbits of transneptunian binary systems (58534) Logos-Zoe, (66652) Borasisi-Pabu, (88611) Teharonhiawako-Sawiskera, (123509) 2000 WK18…