A Radiolytic Origin of Red Organics at the Surface of the Arrokoth Trans-Neptunian Object

Autor: Quirico, Eric, Augé, Basile, Bacmann, Aurore, Wolters, Cédric, Vuitton, Véronique, Gautier, Thomas, Flandinet, Laurène, Launois, Thibault, Jovanovic, Lora, Boduch, Philippe, Rothard, Hermann, Desage, Léopold, Faure, Alexandre, Schmitt, Bernard, Poch, Olivier, Grundy, William, Protopapa, Silvia, Fornasier, Sonia, Cooper, John F., Stern, S. Alan

Publikováno v: 53rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
53rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Mar 2022, The Woodlands, Texas, United States. pp.LPI Contribution No. 2678

International audience; We report calculations and irradiation experiments that show that the red color of Arrokoth is the result of radiolytic processes by Galactic Cosmic Rays.

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