Kuiper Belt Constraint from Pioneer 10

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Jan 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998icar..131..167a&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 131, Issue 1, pp. 167-170.

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We extract information from the failure of small objects to cause detectable damage to Pioneer 10, which has been inside the Kuiper Belt for a decade. Belt objects too small for telescope detection and too large for IR emission visibility are addressed. This is a size range with few other potential techniques, short of a new space mission, for direct detection. Results, based on an 8-inch radius propellant tank, are bounds of about 1/10th of an Earth mass on low-mass, low-density objects. Implications of Poynting-Robertson drag and ISM erosion, and potential improvements to the bounds, are discussed.

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