Contents
List of Contributing Authors
Scientific Organizing Committee and Acknowledgment of Reviewers
Foreword
Preface
Part 1: System Background
The Discoveries of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt | R. P. Binzel and K. Schindler
Early Pluto Science, the Imperative for Exploration, and New Horizons | J. I. Lunine, S. A. Stern, L. A. Young, M. J. Neufeld, and R. P. Binzel
The Transneptunian Objects as the Context for Pluto: An Astronomical Perspective | M. A. Barucci, C. M. Dalle Ore, and S. Fornasier
Part 2: Pluto
The Geology of Pluto | O. L. White, J. M. Moore, A. D. Howard, P. M. Schenk, K. N. Singer, D. A. Williams, and R. M. C. Lopes
Geodynamics of Pluto | F. Nimmo and W. B. McKinnon
The Landscapes of Pluto as Witness to Climate Evolution | J. M. Moore and A. D. Howard
Impact Craters on Pluto and Charon and Terrain Age Estimates | K. N. Singer, S. Greenstreet, P. M. Schenk, S. J. Robbins, and V. J. Bray
Colors and Photometric Properties of Pluto | C. B. Olkin, C. J. A. Howett, S. Protopapa, W. M. Grundy, A. J. Verbiscer, and M. W. Buie
Surface Composition of Pluto | D. P. Cruikshank, W. M. Grundy, S. Protopapa, B. Schmitt, and I. R. Linscott
Rheological and Thermophysical Properties and Some Processes Involving Common Volatile Materials Found on Pluto’s Surface | O. M. Umurhan, C. J. Ahrens, and V. F. Chevrier
Composition and Structure of Pluto’s Atmosphere | M. E. Summers, L. A. Young, G. R. Gladstone, and M. J. Person
Photochemistry and Haze Formation | K. E. Mandt, A. Luspay-Kuti, A. Cheng, K.-L. Jessup, and P. Gao
Dynamics of Pluto’s Atmosphere | F. Forget, T. Bertrand, D. Hinson, and A. Toigo
Pluto’s Volatile and Climate Cycles on Short and Long Timescales | L. A. Young, T. Bertrand, L. M. Trafton, F. Forget, A. M. Earle, and B. Sicardy
Atmospheric Escape | D. F. Strobel
Solar Wind Interaction with the Pluto System | F. Bagenal, D. J. McComas, H. A. Elliott, E. J. Zirnstein, R. L. McNutt Jr., C. M. Lisse, P. Kollmann, P. A. Delamere, and N. P. Barnes
Part 3: Charon and Pluto's Small Satellites
The Geology and Geophysics of Charon | J. Spencer, R. A. Beyer, S. J. Robbins, K. N. Singer, and F. Nimmo
Charon: Colors and Photometric Properties | C. J. A. Howett, C. B. Olkin, S. Protopapa, W. M. Grundy, A. J. Verbiscer, and B. J. Buratti
Surface Composition of Charon | S. Protopapa, J. C. Cook, W. M. Grundy, D. P. Cruikshank, C. M. Dalle Ore, and R. A. Beyer
The Small Satellites of Pluto | S. B. Porter, A. J. Verbiscer, H. A. Weaver, J. C. Cook, and W. M. Grundy
Part 4: Origins, Interiors, and the Big Picture
On the Origin of the Pluto System | R. M. Canup, K. M. Kratter, and M. Neveu
Formation, Composition, and History of the Pluto System: A Post-New Horizons Synthesis | W. B. McKinnon, C. R. Glein, T. Bertrand, and A. R. Rhoden
Transneptunian Space and the Post-Pluto Paradigm | A. H. Parker
Future Exploration of the Pluto System | M. W. Buie, J. D. Hofgartner, V. J. Bray, and E. Lellouch
The Exploration of the Primordial Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth (2014 MU69) by New Horizons S. A. Stern, J. R. Spencer, H. A. Weaver, and C. B. Olkin
Epilogue: New Horizons: An Abbreviated Photographic Journal | M. Soluri
Appendix A: Pluto and Charon Nomenclature | R. A. Beyer and M. Showalter
Appendix B: The New Horizons Instrument Suite | H. A. Weaver
Index