The 1985 stellar occultation by Pluto

Details The 1985 stellar occultation by Pluto The 1985 stellar occultation by Pluto

Sep 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995mnras.276..571b&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 276, Issue 2, pp. 571-578.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Techniques: Photometric, Occultations, Planets And Satellites: Individual: Pluto

Scientific paper

The occultation of a star by Pluto on 1985 August 19 was observed from the Wise Observatory. The light curve of the occultation indicates that Pluto had an atmosphere as early as four years before perihelion passage. The derived scaleheight, together with recent estimates of the planetary radius and an estimate of the surface temperature, allows the determination of the mean molecular weight of the atmosphere. From this, the main atmospheric component could be N_2 or CO, or even CH_4.

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