Pluto and Charon’s Ancient Craters Indicate Deficit of Very Small Kuiper Belt Objects0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 7, 2019
Collisions between bodies in our Solar System produce impact craters on large objects at a rate that depends on the population of impacting small bodies. By mapping the scars of ancient impacts on the surfaces of Pluto and its moon Charon, planetary researchers have discovered a surprising lack of very small objects (from 300 feet to 1 mile, or 91 m to 1.6 km, in diameter) in the Kuiper Belt.
