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20152022
most citedColor, Composition, and Thermal Environment of Kuiper Belt Object (486958) Arrokoth

86 citations · 429 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

astro-ph.EP2022

A Near Surface Temperature Model of Arrokoth

O. M. Umurhan, W. M. Grundy, M. K. Bird +19

A near surface thermal model for Arrokoth is developed based on the recently released facet model of the body. This thermal solution takes into account Arrokoth's surface re…

astro-ph.EP2021

Non-detection of water-ice grains in the coma of comet 46P/Wirtanen and implications for hyperactivity

Silvia Protopapa, Michael S. P. Kelley, Charles E. Woodward +1

Hyperactive comets have high water production rates, with inferred sublimation areas of order the surface area of the nucleus. Comets 46P/Wirtanen and 103P/Hartley 2 are two exampl…

astro-ph.EP2021

The science case for spacecraft exploration of the Uranian satellites: Candidate ocean worlds in an ice giant system

Richard J. Cartwright, Chloe B. Beddingfield, Tom A. Nordheim +15

The 27 satellites of Uranus are enigmatic, with dark surfaces coated by material that could be rich in organics. Voyager 2 imaged the southern hemispheres of Uranus' five largest '…

astro-ph.EP2021

Persephone: A Pluto-System Orbiter and Kuiper Belt Explorer

Carly Howett, Stuart Robbins, Bryan J. Holler +40

Persephone is a NASA concept mission study that addresses key questions raised by New Horizons' encounters with Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs), with arguably the most important being "…

astro-ph.IM2020

Critical Laboratory Studies to Advance Planetary Science and Support Missions

Edith Fayolle, Laurie Barge, Morgan Cable +18

Laboratory studies for planetary science and astrobiology aimat advancing our understanding of the Solar System through the promotion of theoretical and experimental research into…

astro-ph.EP2020

Modeling Pluto's Minimum Pressure: Implications for Haze Production

Perianne E. Johnson, Leslie A. Young, Silvia Protopapa +6

Pluto has a heterogeneous surface, despite a global haze deposition rate of ~1 micrometer per orbit (Cheng et al., 2017; Grundy et al., 2018). While there could be spatial variatio…