Minor Bodies in the Outer Solar System

1. Front Matter

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2. The Kuiper Belt: Overview

   • David Jewitt

   Pages 1-8

3. Physical Characteristics of Trans-Neptunian Objects and Centaurs

   • John K. Davies

   Pages 9-24

4. Detection of Thermal Emission from 1993 SC - First Results

   • Nicolas Thomas, Sönke Eggers, Wing-Huen Ip, Günter Lichtenberg, Alan Fitzsimmons, Horst Uwe Keller et al.

   Pages 25-31

5. Physical Characteristics of Distant Comets

   • Dina Prialnik

   Pages 33-49

6. Optical Observations of Trans-Neptunian and Centaur Objects

   • M. Antonietta Barucci, Monica Lazzarin

   Pages 51-56

7. Photometry Techniques - Report of Splinter Meeting

   • Simon Green, Neil McBride

   Pages 57-60

8. Physical Observations of 1996 TO66

   • Catherine E. Delahodde, Olivier R. Hainaut, Hermann Böhnhardt, Elisabetta Dotto, M. Antonietta Barucci, Richard M. West et al.

   Pages 61-63

9. TNO Color Survey with the VLT: Pilot Observations with the Science Verification Camera

   • Olivier R. Hainaut, Hermann Böhnhardt, Richard M. West, Catherine E. Delahodde, Karen J. Meech

   Pages 65-69

10. Colours of Distant Solar System Bodies

    • Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist, Mats Dahlgren, Andreas Ekholm, Johan Lagerros, Magnus Lundström, Per Magnusson et al.

    Pages 71-73

11. Comet Size Distributions and Distant Activity

    • Karen J. Meech, Olivier R. Hainaut, Brian G. Marsden

    Pages 75-80

12. Ion Irradiation of Minor Bodies in the Outer Solar System

    • Giovanni Strazzulla

    Pages 81-85

13. Surveys of the Distant Solar System

    • Alan Fitzsimmons

    Pages 87-98

14. Dust Measurements in the Outer Solar System

    • Eberhard Grün, Harald Krüger, Markus Landgraf

    Pages 99-108

15. Simulations of Bias Effects in Kuiper Belt Surveys

    • Chadwick Trujillo

    Pages 109-115

16. A Pencil-Beam Search for Distant TNOs at the ESO NTT

    • Hermann Boehnhardt, Olivier Hainaut, Catherine Delahodde, Richard West, Karen Meech, Brian Marsden

    Pages 117-123

17. Does Pluto Affect the Trans-Neptunian Region?

    • Brett Gladman, Jean-Marc Petit, Martin Duncan

    Pages 125-127

18. Kiso EKBO & Centaur Survey and the Design and Implementation of the Moving Object Detection Engine

    • Daisuke Kinoshita, Naotaka Yamamoto, Tomohiko Sekiguchi, Shinsuke Abe, Junichi Watanabe

    Pages 129-130

19. Limitations of Numerical Modelling of Kuiper Belt Object Dynamics

    • Ryszard Gabryszewski

    Pages 131-134

20. Future Investigations with New Facilities

    • Hermann Boehnhardt

    Pages 135-149

This volume tries to summarize the status of observational knowledge of the Kuiper Belt. Its recent discovery has revitalized the astromomical study of the Solar System and is beginning to open new and unexpected windows on the physics of planetesimal accretion. With more and better observational data being obtained at the technological limit of current facilities, a new perception of the relationships that exist among the various classes of small Solar System bodies has emerged. The new observations have also motivated a number of fascinating theoretical studies in Solar System dynamics.

• Comet
• Kuiper Belt
• Planet
• Planetesimal Accretion
• Accretion
• comet
• photometry
• planet
• solar
• solar system

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