A search for distant satellites of Pluto

Details A search for distant satellites of Pluto A search for distant satellites of Pluto

Nov 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991icar...94..246s&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 94, Nov. 1991, p. 246-249.

Physics

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Natural Satellites, Planetary Orbits, Pluto (Planet), Faint Objects, Orbit Perturbation

Scientific paper

Results of a deep CCD-imaging search for satellites of Pluto, whose stability domain extends two orders of magnitude farther than the radius of Charon's orbit, are presented for a region extending from 6 arcsec from Pluto to beyond the edge of the planet's stability domain. Upper limits of 90 percent confidence are placed on the absence of potential satellites with a Charonlike albedo with a radius greater than 58 +/- 19 km in the region 6-10 arcsec from Pluto; this constitutes the strongest extant constraint on the possibility of Pluto satellites.

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