A radiolytic origin of red organics at the surface of the arrokoth trans- neptunian objects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • who: rd Lunar et al. from the Universitu00e9 LATMOS University, Caen, France have published the paper: A RADIOLYTIC ORIGIN OF RED ORGANICS AT THE SURFACE OF THE ARROKOTH TRANS- NEPTUNIAN OBJECTS, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)

SUMMARY

    Arrokoth was surveyed by the New Horizons spacecraft on 1st January 2019. Different energetic pArticles can produce organics from ices: Solar or interstellar UV photons, Solar wind (SW) and Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs), and Galactic Cosmic rays. The authors calculated the sputtered thickness for 3 end-member materials: CO ice and_(2) H2O ice, which are the . . .

     

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