The Pluto system after New Horizons / edited by S. Alan Stern [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stern, Alan, 1957- editor.

Series:

Space Science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pluto (Dwarf planet).

Pluto (Dwarf planet)--Exploration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (684 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Once perceived as distant, cold, dark, and seemingly unknowable, Pluto had long been marked as the farthest and most unreachable frontier for solar system exploration. The Pluto System After New Horizons is the benchmark research compendium for synthesizing our understanding of the Pluto system. This volume reviews the work of researchers who have spent the last five years assimilating the data returned from New Horizons and the first full scientific synthesis of this fascinating system"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Contributing Authors

Scientific Organizing Committee and Acknowledgment of Reviewers

Foreword

Preface

Part 1: System Background

The Discoveries of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt | R. P. Binzel and K. Schindler

Early Pluto Science, the Imperative for Exploration, and New Horizons | J. I. Lunine, S. A. Stern, L. A. Young, M. J. Neufeld, and R. P. Binzel

The Transneptunian Objects as the Context for Pluto: An Astronomical Perspective | M. A. Barucci, C. M. Dalle Ore, and S. Fornasier

Part 2: Pluto

The Geology of Pluto | O. L. White, J. M. Moore, A. D. Howard, P. M. Schenk, K. N. Singer, D. A. Williams, and R. M. C. Lopes

Geodynamics of Pluto | F. Nimmo and W. B. McKinnon

The Landscapes of Pluto as Witness to Climate Evolution | J. M. Moore and A. D. Howard

Impact Craters on Pluto and Charon and Terrain Age Estimates | K. N. Singer, S. Greenstreet, P. M. Schenk, S. J. Robbins, and V. J. Bray

Colors and Photometric Properties of Pluto | C. B. Olkin, C. J. A. Howett, S. Protopapa, W. M. Grundy, A. J. Verbiscer, and M. W. Buie

Surface Composition of Pluto | D. P. Cruikshank, W. M. Grundy, S. Protopapa, B. Schmitt, and I. R. Linscott

Rheological and Thermophysical Properties and Some Processes Involving Common Volatile Materials Found on Pluto's Surface | O. M. Umurhan, C. J. Ahrens, and V. F. Chevrier

Composition and Structure of Pluto's Atmosphere | M. E. Summers, L. A. Young, G. R. Gladstone, and M. J. Person

Photochemistry and Haze Formation | K. E. Mandt, A. Luspay-Kuti, A. Cheng, K.-L. Jessup, and P. Gao

Dynamics of Pluto's Atmosphere | F. Forget, T. Bertrand, D. Hinson, and A. Toigo

Pluto's Volatile and Climate Cycles on Short and Long Timescales | L. A. Young, T. Bertrand, L. M. Trafton, F. Forget, A. M. Earle, and B. Sicardy

Atmospheric Escape | D. F. Strobel.

Solar Wind Interaction with the Pluto System | F. Bagenal, D. J. McComas, H. A. Elliott, E. J. Zirnstein, R. L. McNutt Jr., C. M. Lisse, P. Kollmann, P. A. Delamere, and N. P. Barnes

Part 3: Charon and Pluto's Small Satellites

The Geology and Geophysics of Charon | J. Spencer, R. A. Beyer, S. J. Robbins, K. N. Singer, and F. Nimmo

Charon: Colors and Photometric Properties | C. J. A. Howett, C. B. Olkin, S. Protopapa, W. M. Grundy, A. J. Verbiscer, and B. J. Buratti

Surface Composition of Charon | S. Protopapa, J. C. Cook, W. M. Grundy, D. P. Cruikshank, C. M. Dalle Ore, and R. A. Beyer

The Small Satellites of Pluto | S. B. Porter, A. J. Verbiscer, H. A. Weaver, J. C. Cook, and W. M. Grundy

Part 4: Origins, Interiors, and the Big Picture

On the Origin of the Pluto System | R. M. Canup, K. M. Kratter, and M. Neveu

Formation, Composition, and History of the Pluto System: A Post-New Horizons Synthesis | W. B. McKinnon, C. R. Glein, T. Bertrand, and A. R. Rhoden

Transneptunian Space and the Post-Pluto Paradigm | A. H. Parker

Future Exploration of the Pluto System | M. W. Buie, J. D. Hofgartner, V. J. Bray, and E. Lellouch

The Exploration of the Primordial Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth (2014 MU69) by New Horizons S. A. Stern, J. R. Spencer, H. A. Weaver, and C. B. Olkin

Epilogue: New Horizons: An Abbreviated Photographic Journal | M. Soluri

Appendix A: Pluto and Charon Nomenclature | R. A. Beyer and M. Showalter

Appendix B: The New Horizons Instrument Suite | H. A. Weaver

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8165-4094-2

OCLC:

1258214709