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Research of Small Kuiper Belt Objects by Stellar Occultations

✍ Scribed by Françoise Roques


Book ID
111601015
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
71 KB
Volume
92
Category
Article
ISSN
1573-0794

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We explore the possibility of detecting small Kuiper belt objects (KBO) by serendipitous observation of stellar occultations: We show that such unpredictable occultations may allow us to detect a population of very small objects (typically of ∼100 m radius at 40 AU), invisible by any other observati