The New Horizons (NH) flyby of the Pluto–Charon binary planet and its system of four small
surrounding satellites in mid-2015 revolutionized our knowledge of this distant planet and its …

ABSTRACT Motivated by the New Horizons mission, we consider how Pluto's small
satellites—currently Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra—grow in debris from the giant impact …

Using a suite of numerical calculations, we consider the long-term evolution of circumbinary
debris from the Pluto–Charon giant impact. Initially, these solids have large eccentricity and …

A Pluto–Charon Sonata: The Dynamical Architecture of the Circumbinary Satellite System -
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In a previous work, Giuliatti Winter et al. found several stable regions for test particles in orbit
around Pluto associated with families of periodic orbits obtained in the circular, restricted …

This paper aims to alleviate the confusion between many different ways of defining latitude
and longitude on Pluto, as well as to help prevent future Pluto papers from drawing false …

We discuss a new set of∼ 500 numerical n-body calculations designed to constrain the
masses and bulk densities of Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra. Comparisons of different …

Context. Pluto has five known satellites with diameters ranging from~ 1200 km down to~ 40
km, a possible outcome of a collisional origin. Smaller objects probably exist and may …

Current theory considers two options for the formation of the Pluto–Charon binary. In the hit-
and-run model, a lower mass projectile barely hits the more massive Pluto, kicks up some …

Albeit the discovery of thousands of extrasolar planets, so far no exomoon has been found.
This may be due to a lack of dynamical investigation of the best regions around the planets …