Comptes Rendus

Special Issue

new frontiers in the solar system: trans-neptunian objects

Guest editor: A. Barucci

Table of contents

Foreword
p. 731-732
The discovery and exploration of the trans-Neptunian region

Presented by: Pierre Encrenaz

John Keith Davies
p. 733-741
Discovering and securing TNOs: the CFHTLS Ecliptic survey

Presented by: Pierre Encrenaz

Jean-Marc Petit; Brett Gladman
p. 743-753
Multicolour photometry of trans-Neptunian objects: surface properties and structures

Presented by: Pierre Encrenaz

Alain Doressoundiram; Hermann Boehnhardt
p. 755-765
A statistical insight into the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt

Presented by: Pierre Encrenaz

Marcello Fulchignoni; Audrey C. Delsanti
p. 767-774
Surface composition of TNOs and Centaurs: visible and near-infrared spectroscopy

Presented by: Pierre Encrenaz

Elisabetta Dotto; M.Antonietta Barucci; Catherine de Bergh
p. 775-782
Quantitative modeling of the spectral reflectance of Kuiper Belt objects and Centaurs

Presented by: Pierre Encrenaz

Dale P. Cruikshank; Ted L. Roush; François Poulet
p. 783-789
Ion irradiation of TNOs: from the fluxes measured in space to the laboratory experiments
p. 791-801
Collisions, accretion, and erosion in the Kuiper Belt
p. 803-808
The primordial sculpting of the Kuiper belt

Presented by: Pierre Encrenaz

Alessandro Morbidelli; Hal F. Levison
p. 809-817