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Crystalline water ice on the Kuiper belt object (50000) Quaoar
Crystalline water ice on the Kuiper belt object (50000) Quaoar DavidC. Jewitt 1 &Jane Luu 2 1 Institute for Astronomy, 2680 Wo odlawn Drive, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA 2 MIT ...
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/papers/50000/Quaoar.pdf
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DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF THE SIZE OF THE LARGEKUIPER BELT OBJECT (50000 ...
DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF THE SIZE OF THE LARGEKUIPER BELT OBJECT (50000) QUAOAR MichaelE. Brown and Chadwick A. Trujillo Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California ...
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/papers/ps/qu.pdf
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David J. Stevenson Quaoar, a large body in the Kuiper belt, has crystalline water ice on its surface, yet conditions there should favour amorphous ice.
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/papers/50000/Stevenson.pdf
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PHOTOMETRY OF THE TRANS-NEPTUNIAN
Abstract Broadband CCD photometry of three Trans-Neptunian Objects (47171) 1999 TC36, (50000) Quaoar and (84922) 2003 VS2 were carried out in 2004 with 2m RCC telescope of the ...
http://www.on.br/acm2005/presentation/P6.11.pdf
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Idaho Skies
Solar system object 50000 Quaoar has a name pronounced like kwaa'·waar. Quaoar has a diameter 1/10 th the size of earth, or around 800 miles across.
http://www.boiseastro.org/boiseskies/June06.pdf
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POLARIMETRY OF TRANSNEPTUNIAN OBJECTS AND CENTAURS WITH VLT. I. N ...
Later, three other distant objects have been observed: (2060) Chiron, (50000) Quaoar, and 29981 (1999 TD 10) [2,3]. Obtained data have shown a noticeable diversity in the behavior of ...
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/acm2008/pdf/8172.pdf
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Variability of Kuiper Belt binaries
Some of the larger KBBs, 2003UB313, 2004DW and (50000) Quaoar, do not show large amplitude variation, although the sample size is still small. With our current HST program for binary ...
http://www.boulder.swri.edu/binary-mtg/abstracts/kern.pdf
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WHICH ARE THE DWARFS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM? G. Tancredi1,2 , S. Favre
... Ceres, (134340)-Pluto, (136199)-Eris Case II - Sphere or MacLaurin ellipsoid with small albedo spots (15874), (26375) ?, (28978)-Ixion, (38628)-Huya, (42301) ?, (47171) ?, (50000)-Quaoar ...
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/acm2008/pdf/8261.pdf
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X-shooter Science Verification Proposal
The three yellow objects in the middle are (50000) Quaoar, (20000) Varunaand (47171) 1999 TC 36. Note that in the last case, the data fall near the regions spanned by CH4, H2O ices and ...
http://www.eso.org/sci/activities/vltsv/xshootersv/ALVAREZ.pdf
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for July 14 and come enjoy a relaxed get-together
Solar system object 50000 Quaoar has a name pronounced like kwaa'·waar. Quaoar has a diameter 1/10 th the size of earth, or around 800 miles across.
http://www.boiseastro.org/newslet/SkyWatcher_June_06.pdf
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