A decade after the confirmation of the Kuiper Belt's existence, 80 of the world's experts gathered in Chile to review what has been learned since 1992. This record of the meeting is enhanced by several specially solicited papers covering additional material not presented at the conference. The volume includes papers on the dynamics of the trans-Neptunian region, the results of deep surveys for the new objects and the evidence for an outer Edge to the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. Physical observations of many objects are described and attempts are made to bring these data into some coherent picture of the distant solar system. The interior physics of these distant, icy objects, and the link between the Kuiper Belt and dust disks around other stars are also considered. Of particular interest is a set of papers on how the surfaces of distant asteroids are affected by various types of radiation, an area crucial to the interpretation of data being collected by large ground based telescopes. Suitable for professional astronomers and PhD students working in the field of planetary science.
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When Edgeworth and Kuiper conjectured the existence of a belt of small bodies beyond Neptune - the presently called Kuiper belt - they certainly were imagining a disk of planetesimals preserving the pristine conditions of the proto-planetary disk. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
extended scattered disk, statistical ranging, collisional activity, high inclination objects, ice tholin, low inclination objects, scattered disk objects, correlation between inclination, occultation survey, inclination distribution, geographical mixture, occultation light curve, debris disks, classical belt, solar wind termination shock, planetesimal disk, minimum mass solar nebula, transneptunian objects, belt objects, opposition surge, outer solar system objects, differential size distribution, dynamical classification, perihelion argument, cold population Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
University of Arizona Press, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Minor Planet Center, Astronomical Journal, Deep Ecliptic Survey, New York, Lowell Observatory, Dalle Ore, Mauna Kea, Cambridge University Press, Red Kuiper-Belt Objects, University of Hawaii, Astrophysical Journal, Near-Circular Orbits, Kitt Peak, France Abstract, Inclination Distribution of the Kuiper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Monte Carlo, Photometry of Trans-Neptunian, References Brown, Space Sci, Caltech Wide Area Sky Survey, Charged Particle Irradiation, Goddard Space Flight Center New!
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When Edgeworth and Kuiper conjectured the existence of a belt of small bodies beyond Neptune - the presently called Kuiper belt - they certainly were imagining a disk of planetesimals preserving the pristine conditions of the proto-planetary disk. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
extended scattered disk, statistical ranging, collisional activity, high inclination objects, ice tholin, low inclination objects, scattered disk objects, correlation between inclination, occultation survey, inclination distribution, geographical mixture, occultation light curve, debris disks, classical belt, solar wind termination shock, planetesimal disk, minimum mass solar nebula, transneptunian objects, belt objects, opposition surge, outer solar system objects, differential size distribution, dynamical classification, perihelion argument, cold population Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
University of Arizona Press, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Minor Planet Center, Astronomical Journal, Deep Ecliptic Survey, New York, Lowell Observatory, Dalle Ore, Mauna Kea, Cambridge University Press, Red Kuiper-Belt Objects, University of Hawaii, Astrophysical Journal, Near-Circular Orbits, Kitt Peak, France Abstract, Inclination Distribution of the Kuiper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Monte Carlo, Photometry of Trans-Neptunian, References Brown, Space Sci, Caltech Wide Area Sky Survey, Charged Particle Irradiation, Goddard Space Flight Center New!
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- The Solar System (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library) by Thérèse Encrenaz on 17 pages
- The Solar System (3 Vol Set) (Magill's Choice) by Roger Smith on 13 pages
- Pluto and Charon: Ice Worlds on the Ragged Edge of the Solar System by Alan Stern on 11 pages
- The Solar System (with AceAstronomy™, Virtual Astronomy Labs Printed Access Card) by Michael A. Seeds on 5 pages
- The Solar System (Science Fact Files) by Christopher Cooper on page 241, page 275, and page 312
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