Satellite searches at Pluto and Mars

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Mar 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006icar..181..218n&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 181, Issue 1, p. 218-222.

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We report the results of searches for outer satellites of Pluto and Mars, carried out with the Hale 5-m telescope in 1999 and 2001, respectively. No new satellites were found down to limiting magnitudes of m=25.0 at Pluto and m˜22 at Mars, corresponding to diameters of 35 and 1 km, respectively, for an assumed geometric albedo of 0.07. A faint trans-neptunian object, 1999 LB37, was discovered in the Pluto fields; given the depth of our survey, discovery of one such object in the background Kuiper belt is in reasonable agreement with expectations.

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