Rotation and Mutual Eclipse Events Season in the Kuiper Belt: (524366) 2001 XR 254

arXiv:2607.27589 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-07-30 · Read on arXiv

Audrey Thirouin, William M. Grundy, Scott S. Sheppard, Keith S. Noll, José María Gómez-Limón, Benjamin Proudfoot

astro-ph.EP

Submitted: 2026-07-30

Comments: AJ, In press

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Lowell Discovery Telescope — 5× in this paper
• Aperture — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Hubble Space Telescope — 2× in this paper
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture Photometry — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Large Monolithic Imager — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Binaries in the Kuiper Belt

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