Small Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) are Surprisingly Rare!
The Kuiper Belt is a donut-shaped region of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. Until the 2015 flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto and its largest satellite Charon by […]
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AGU Session 24786: Pluto and Charon in the Rear View, MU69 Dead Ahead off the Starboard Bow
We invite submissions across a broad range of topics: New Horizons’ July 2015 encounter with the Pluto system revolutionized our understanding of dwarf planets and the Kuiper belt. Data return […]
AGU Session 24786: Pluto and Charon in the Rear View, MU69 Dead Ahead off the Starboard Bow (P032)
We invite submissions across a broad range of topics: New Horizons’ July 2015 encounter with the Pluto system revolutionized our understanding of dwarf planets and the Kuiper belt. Data return only ended […]
GSA 2016 SESSION T164: GEOLOGY OF THE PLUTO SYSTEM
We invite contributions to a special session on the geology of Pluto, its large moon Charon, and the smaller satellites Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra, at the 2016 GSA Annual […]
Pluto’s Big Moon Charon Reveals a Colorful and Violent History
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has returned the best color and the highest resolution images yet of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon – and these pictures show a surprisingly complex and violent […]
From Mountains to Moons: Multiple Discoveries from NASA’s New Horizons Pluto Mission
Icy mountains on Pluto and a new, crisp view of its largest moon, Charon, are among the several discoveries announced Wednesday by NASA’s New Horizons team, just one day after […]
NASA’s Hubble Finds Pluto’s Moons Tumbling in Absolute Chaos
If you lived on one of Pluto’s moons, you might have a hard time determining when, or from which direction, the sun will rise each day. Comprehensive analysis of data […]
The View from New Horizons: A Full Day on Pluto-Charon
This time-lapse “movie” of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, was recently shot at record-setting distances with the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft. The movie was […]
Cracks in Pluto’s Moon Could Indicate it Once Had an Underground Ocean
If the icy surface of Pluto’s giant moon Charon is cracked, analysis of the fractures could reveal if its interior was warm, perhaps warm enough to have maintained a subterranean […]
New Horizons: Late in Cruise, and a Binary Ahoy
Alan Stern, New Horizons PI: New Horizons has just completed a summer of intensive activities and entered hibernation on Aug. 20. The routine parts of the activities included thorough checkouts […]