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New Horizons’ Student Dust Counter Measurements: The Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt at 58 AU Heliocentric Distance
PLANETARY RING, METEOROID, AND DUST POPULATIONS AND EFFECTS POSTER
planetary sciences | 11 december 2024
Alex Doner, Mihaly Horanyi, Pontus C. Brandt, Thom...
The Kuiper Belt is the primary source of interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) in the outer solar system, originating from collisions between Kuiper Be...
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Preparing for the Termination Shock Encounter with New Horizons
DYNAMICS OF THE SOLAR WIND–INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM INTERACTION OF THE OUTER HELIOSPHERE THROUGH IN SITU OBSERVATIONS AND MODELING II ORAL
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 11 december 2024
Pontus C. Brandt, Matthew E. Hill, Heather A. Elli...
Across the Termination Shock (TS) the solar wind was expected to transition from supersonic to subsonic and heat by two orders of magnitude. Voyager 2...
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A “Valley” in Heliospheric Energetic Particle Intensities and Implications for a New Horizons Encounter with the Solar Wind Termination Shock
DYNAMICS OF THE SOLAR WIND–INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM INTERACTION OF THE OUTER HELIOSPHERE THROUGH IN SITU OBSERVATIONS AND MODELING II ORAL
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 11 december 2024
Romina Nikoukar, Matthew E. Hill, Robert B. Decker...
Launched in 2006, the New Horizons (NH) spacecraft is currently at 59 au from the Sun and expected to observe the solar wind termination shock (TS) as...
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Termination Shock Particle Streaming Upstream at New Horizons
DYNAMICS OF THE SOLAR WIND–INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM INTERACTION OF THE OUTER HELIOSPHERE THROUGH IN SITU OBSERVATIONS AND MODELING II ORAL
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 11 december 2024
Erick Powell, Merav Opher, Ethan Bair, Matthew E. ...
When Voyager 1 (V1) and Voyager 2 (V2) approached the Termination Shock (TS), instruments aboard both spacecraft observed high intensities accelerated...
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Radial Variation of the Solar Wind Density-Temperature Relationship in the Outer Heliosphere
DYNAMICS OF THE SOLAR WIND–INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM INTERACTION OF THE OUTER HELIOSPHERE THROUGH IN SITU OBSERVATIONS AND MODELING I POSTER
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 10 december 2024
Heather A. Elliott, John D. Richardson, Maher A. D...
We explore how the relationship between the solar wind temperature (T) and density (n) varies with increasing distance in the outer heliosphere. In th...
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Shapes of Arrokoth and other Kuiper Belt Objects from New Horizons
SMALL SOLAR SYSTEM BODIES: SAMPLE RETURNS, JWST, GROUND-BASED ASTRONOMY, AND MORE PLUS OBSERVATIONS OF THE OSIRIS-REX SAMPLE RETURN REENTRY III ORAL
planetary sciences | 10 december 2024
Simon Porter, Kelsi N. Singer, Paul Schenk, Anne V...
Here we present both an updated shape model of (486958) Arrokoth, the bilobate Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) which the NASA New Horizons spacecraft flew pa...
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Photometric Properties of Kuiper Belt Objects Observed by New Horizons and HST
SMALL SOLAR SYSTEM BODIES: SAMPLE RETURNS, JWST, GROUND-BASED ASTRONOMY, AND MORE PLUS OBSERVATIONS OF THE OSIRIS-REX SAMPLE RETURN REENTRY I POSTER
planetary sciences | 10 december 2024
Anne Verbiscer, Simon Porter, Wesley Fraser, Fumi ...
NASAs New Horizons (NH) spacecraft continues to acquire high solar phase angle, unresolved observations of large planetesimals, i.e. Kuiper Belt Objec...
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Bridging the Energy Gap: Solar Wind Data from PEPSSI and SWAP on New Horizons
THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF HELIOPHYSICS THROUGH IN SITU OBSERVATIONS OF THE OUTER HELIOSPHERE AND THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM II ORAL
spa-solar and heliospheric physics | 15 december 2023
Ralph L. McNutt, David J. McComas, Matthew E. Hill...
The New Horizons spacecraft, launched in 2006, continues to return unprecedented charged particle data from the outer heliosphere. The Pluto Energetic...
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