NASA NTRS · 20170003182
Surface Compositions Across Pluto and Charon
Abstract
The Kuiper Belt hosts a swarm of distant, icy objects ranging in size from small, primordial planetesimals to much larger, highly evolved objects, representing a whole new class of previously unexplored cryogenic worlds. Pluto, the largest among them, along with its system of five satellites, has been revealed by NASAs New Horizons spacecraft flight through the system in July 2015, nearly a decade after its launch.
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Grundy, W. M., Binzel, R. P., Buratti, B. J., Cook, J. C., Cruikshank, D. P., Dalle Ore, C. M., Earle, A. M., Ennico, K., Howett, C. J. A., Lunsford, A. W., Olkin, C. B., Parker, A. H., Philippe, S, Protopapa, S., Quirico, E., Reuter, D. C., Schmitt, B., Singer, K. N., Verbiscer, A. J., Beyer, R. E., Buie, M. W., Cheng, A. F., Jennings, D. E., Linscott, I. R., Parker, J. Wm.. 2016-03-18. Surface Compositions Across Pluto and Charon. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20170003182
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