The Shapes and Spins of Kuiper Belt Objects
Lacerda, PedroCitation
Lacerda, P. (2005, February 17). The Shapes and Spins of Kuiper Belt Objects. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/603
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Shapes and Spins of Kuiper Belt Objects
1. The fraction of KBOs with detectable brightness variations can be used to constrain their shape distribution.
Chapter 2 of this thesis 2. Most KBOs larger than 100 km in radius are nearly spherical.
Chapter 3 of this thesis 3. The shape distribution of KBOs is size dependent.
Chapter 4 of this thesis 4. KBOs with radii larger than 100 km spin slower on average than main belt asteroids in
the same size range.
Chapter 4 of this thesis 5. The spins of the largest KBOs can be used to investigate their size distribution at the end
of the accretion epoch.
Chapter 5 of this thesis 6. The power of abstraction of the human mind becomes evident when we note that our
understanding of astronomical systems does not correlate with our distance from them. 7. Mathematics and science are, in essence, independent.
8. The choice of english as the internationally accepted language for scientific publications is of ecologic significance.
9. Expectations are the root of all disappointments.
– Siddhartha Gautama 10. Luck is the intersection of opportunity with availability.
– my father 11. Our life is more important than our perception of it. Or so we are educated to think. 12. I may disagree with my own propositions.
