VR Photometry of Sixteen Kuiper Belt Objects

Bibcode
2001Icar..152..246G
DOI
10.1006/icar.2001.6627
Gil-Hutton, R.; Licandro, Javier
Bibliographical reference

Icarus, Volume 152, Issue 2, pp. 246-250 (2001).

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2001
Journal
ICARUS
Number of authors
2
IAC number of authors
0
Citations
20
Refereed citations
19
Description
We present V and R photometry of 16 Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) from the 3.6-m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo and the Complejo Astronómico El Leoncito 2.1-m telescope. We find a wide dispersion in the (V-R) colors of the objects, indicating nonuniform surface properties. If we assume near constant albedos, there does not appear to be a general trend of redness with size, but the color range for classical KBOs in our sample appears to be wider than for Plutinos. Unless the albedo value is variable for different objects, 1998 SN165 becomes the largest Plutino so far identified, apart from Pluto (diameter=2400 km) and Charon (1200 km).
Type
Refereed

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