A Detection Method for Small Kuiper Belt
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Françoise Roques; Michel Moncuquet
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Article
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2000
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Elsevier Science
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English
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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