S. Stern

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Differentiation of the asteroid Ceres as revealed by its shape
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C Ceres has a shape and smoothness indicative of a gravitationally relaxed object that is significantly less flattened than that expected for a homogeneous object, but is consistent with a central mass concentration indicative of differentiation.
Collisional Erosion in the Primordial Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt and the Generation of the 30-50 AU Kuiper Gap
One of the oustanding questions about the architecture of the outer solar system is how the trans-Neptunian disk of comets and small planet-scale objects known as the solar system's Edgeworth-Kuiper…
The Pluto system: Initial results from its exploration by New Horizons
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The New Horizons encounter revealed that Pluto displays a surprisingly wide variety of geological landforms, including those resulting from glaciological and surface-atmosphere interactions as well as impact, tectonic, possible cryovolcanic, and mass-wasting processes.
The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph
The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) is a moderate-resolution spectrograph with unprecedented sensitivity that was installed into the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in 2009 May, during HST Servicing…
On the Collisional Environment, Accretion Time Scales, and Architecture of the Massive, Primordial Kuiper Belt.
  • S. Stern
  • Geology, Physics
  • 1 September 1996
ii Abstract Previous collisional modelling has suggested that the mass of the primordial Kuiper Disk between 30 and 50 AU was probably of order 10M to 50M. We explore the consequences of a massive,…
Could the Lunar “Late Heavy Bombardment” Have Been Triggered by the Formation of Uranus and Neptune?
We investigate the hypothesis that the so-called Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB) of the Moon was triggered by the formation of Uranus and Neptune. As Uranus and Neptune formed, which we assume occurred…
Photometric analysis of 1 Ceres and surface mapping from HST observations
The small satellites of Pluto as observed by New Horizons
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The New Horizons results on Pluto’s small moons help to elucidate the conditions under which the Pluto system formed and evolved, and massively increase the understanding of the bodies in the outer solar system.
ON THE SIZE DEPENDENCE OF THE INCLINATION DISTRIBUTION OF THE MAIN KUIPER BELT
We present a new analysis of the currently available orbital elements for the known Kuiper belt objects. In the nonresonant, main Kuiper belt, we find a statistically significant relationship between…
Collision Rates in the Present-Day Kuiper Belt and Centaur Regions: Applications to Surface Activation and Modification on Comets, Kuiper Belt Objects, Centaurs, and Pluto–Charon
Abstract We present results from our model of collision rates in the present-day Edgeworth–Kuiper Belt and Centaur region. We have updated previous results to allow for new estimates of the total…
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