| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1775887 | Icarus | 2006 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
We report the results of searches for outer satellites of Pluto and Mars, carried out with the Hale 5-m telescope in 1999 and 2001, respectively. No new satellites were found down to limiting magnitudes of mR=25.0 at Pluto and mVâ¼22 at Mars, corresponding to diameters of 35 and 1 km, respectively, for an assumed geometric albedo of 0.07. A faint trans-neptunian object, 1999 LB37, was discovered in the Pluto fields; given the depth of our survey, discovery of one such object in the background Kuiper belt is in reasonable agreement with expectations.
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Authors
Philip D. Nicholson, Brett J. Gladman,