The color and binarity of (486958) 2014 MU69 and other long-range New Horizons Kuiper Belt targets
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) measured the colors of eight Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) that will be observed by the New Horizons spacecraft including its 2019 close fly-by target the Cold Classical KBO (486958) 2014 MU69. We find that the photometric colors of all eight objects are red, typical of...
Main Author: | Binzel, Richard P |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier BV
2020
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124561 |
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