Michael E. Brown

TL;DR: Experimental proof is provided of an unconventional seismic design concept, which is based on deliberately underdesigning shallow foundations to promote intense rocking oscillations and thereby to dramatically improve the seismic resilience of structures.

TL;DR: In this paper, the physical and orbital characteristics of the Kuiper Belt object Orcus and its satellite Vanth were characterized from the Spitzer Space Telescope observations, and the thermal emission was consistent with a single body with diameter 940 ± 70 km and a geometric albedo of 0.28 ± 0.04.

TL;DR: In this paper, a near-infrared spot projection system has been developed, and the effect of subpixel non-uniformity was studied, showing that for detectors with near 100% internal quantum efficiency, 1% photometry can be achieved with a point-spread function (PSF) size of about half a pixel.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a simple, plausible hypothesis for the origin and evolution of the two Trojan color sub-populations, which suggest a common primordial progenitor population for both Trojans and Kuiper Belt objects.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors numerically integrated the orbits of 1458 particles in the region of the classical Kuiper belt (41 AU ≤ a ≤ 47 AU) to explore the role of dynamical instabilities in sculpting the inclination distribution of the KBOs, finding that the selective removal of low-inclination objects by overlapping secular resonances (ν_(17) and ν_(18)) acts to raise the mean inclination of the surviving population of particles over 4 billion yr of interactions with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.