Seeing double in the Kuiper belt

Daniel D. Durda ()
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Daniel D. Durda: Southwest Research Institute

Nature, 2002, vol. 420, issue 6916, 618-619

Abstract: A small fraction of Kuiper-belt objects are known to be accompanied by large moons. These double worlds may have formed in the earliest days of the Solar System through comparatively gentle gravitational encounters.

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1038/420618a

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