Surface Properties of Neutral TNOs

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf.1681s&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.1681

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Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) are important as early solar system relics that can tell us about dynamical and chemical processes in the disk and in the population of small bodies in the solar system. TNOs are expected to be isolated and inactive (because activity has never been seen at such large heliocentric distances), which leads to very red optical colors compared to the Sun. However, a surprisingly large fraction of TNOs have neutral colors characteristic of resurfaced bodies. To investigate the resurfacing mechanism and better understand the physical and chemical processes of the early solar system, we are conducting a survey to determine surface properties of these neutral TNOs. Here, we present preliminary results from five of our survey targets.

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