• DOI:10.1016/j.icarus.2016.06.027
Corpus ID: 44935431

Mean radius and shape of Pluto and Charon from New Horizons images

@article{Nimmo2017MeanRA,
  title={Mean radius and shape of Pluto and Charon from New Horizons images},
  author={F. Nimmo and O. Umurhan and C. Lisse and C. Bierson and T. Lauer and M. Buie and H. Throop and J. Kammer and J. Roberts and W. McKinnon and A. Zangari and Jeffrey M. Moore and S. Stern and L. Young and H. Weaver and C. Olkin and K. Ennico and The New Horizons Team},
  journal={Icarus},
  year={2017},
  volume={287},
  pages={12-29}
}

• F. Nimmo, O. Umurhan, +15 authors The New Horizons Team
• Published 2017
• Physics
• Icarus

Approach images taken by the LORRI imaging system during the New Horizons spacecraft encounter have been used to determine the mean radii and shapes of Pluto and Charon. The primary observations are limb locations derived using three independent approaches. The resulting mean radii of Pluto and Charon are 1188.3 ± 1.6 km and 606.0 ± 1.0 km, respectively (2-σ). The corresponding densities are 1854 ± 11 kg/m3 and 1701 ± 33 kg/m3 (2-σ). The Charon radius value is consistent with previous Earth… Expand