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新视野号观测到的冥王星小卫星

The Small Satellites of Pluto as Observed by New Horizons

H. A. Weaver, M. W. Buie, B. J. Buratti, W. M. Grundy, T. R. Lauer, C. B. Olkin, A. H. Parker, S. B. Porter, M. R. Showalter, J. R. Spencer, S. A. Stern, A. J. … 展开作者

H. A. Weaver, M. W. Buie, B. J. Buratti, W. M. Grundy, T. R. Lauer, C. B. Olkin, A. H. Parker, S. B. Porter, M. R. Showalter, J. R. Spencer, S. A. Stern, A. J. Verbiscer, W. B. McKinnon, J. M. Moore, S. J. Robbins, P. Schenk, K. N. Singer, O. S. Barnouin, A. F. Cheng, C. M. Ernst, C. M. Lisse, D. E. Jennings, A. W. Lunsford, D. C. Reuter, D. P. Hamilton, D. E. Kaufmann, K. Ennico, L. A. Young, R. A. Beyer, R. P. Binzel, V. J. Bray, A. L. Chaikin, J. C. Cook, D. P. Cruikshank, C. M. Dalle Ore, A. M. Earle, G. R. Gladstone, C. J. A. Howett, I. R. Linscott, F. Nimmo, J. Wm. Parker, S. Philippe, S. Protopapa, H. J. Reitsema, B. Schmitt, T. Stryk, M. E. Summers, C. C. C. Tsang, H. H. B. Throop, O. L. White, A. M. Zangari

摘要:

新视野号任务提供了冥王星卫星冥河、尼克斯、冥王星和九头蛇的分辨率测量结果。这四颗行星都很小,Nix和Hydra的等效球径为$\approx$ 40公里,Styx和Hydra的等效球径为10公里。它们也是高度细长的,最大与最小轴比为$\approx$ 2。所有四颗卫星都有很高的冰饱和度($\approx$ 50- 90%),暗示着水冰表面的组成。Nix和Hydra上的陨石坑密度暗示表面年龄为$\gtrsim$ 4 Ga。小卫星的旋转速度比同步快得多,旋转极聚集在冥王星和冥卫一的共同极方向上。这些结果强化了一个假设,即小卫星是在产生冥王星-冥卫一双星的碰撞之后形成的。

英文摘要:

The New Horizons mission has provided resolved measurements of Pluto's moons Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra. All four are small, with equivalent spherical diameters of $\approx$40 km for Nix and Hydra and ~10 km for Styx and Kerberos. They are also highly elongated, with maximum to minimum axis ratios of $\approx$2. All four moons have high albedos ( $\approx$50-90 %) suggestive of a water-ice surface composition. Crater densities on Nix and Hydra imply surface ages $\gtrsim$ 4 Ga. The small moons rotate much faster than synchronous, with rotational poles clustered nearly orthogonal to the common pole directions of Pluto and Charon. These results reinforce the hypothesis that the small moons formed in the aftermath of a collision that produced the Pluto-Charon binary.

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