Capture of an ancient Charon around Pluto
Pluto and Charon are the largest binary system in the known population of trans-Neptunian objects in the outer Solar System. Their shared external …
Category: comets and Kuiper belt
Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu
Organic matter in meteorites reveals clues about early Solar System chemistry and the origin of molecules important to life, but terrestrial exposu…
Confined tumbling state as the origin of the excess of slowly rotating asteroids
The rotational distribution of asteroids as a function of their size is used as a diagnostic of their physical properties and evolution. Recent pho…