Captured Small Solar System Bodies in the Ice Giant Region
Whitepaper #103 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: giant planets systems; primitive bodies; solar system formation, dynamics processes, and chronology
by Timothy Holt, Bonnie Buratti, Julie Castillo-Rogez, Björn J. R. Davidsson, Tilmann Denk, Jonti Horner, Bryan J. Holler, Devanshu Jha, Alice Lucchetti, David Nesvorny, Maurizio Pajola, Simon Porter, Alyssa Rhoden, Steven Rappolee, Rebecca Schindhelm, Linda Spilker, and Anne Verbiscer
Published onMar 18, 2021
Captured Small Solar System Bodies in the Ice Giant Region
This white paper advocates for the inclusion of small captured Solar system objects, found in the Ice Giant region in the Decadal Survey. The priority is for further discovery and characterization of these objects over the 2023–2032 decade, including additional support for analysis, in preparation for future missions in the following decades.
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