STANSBERRY , John A.

We report on the status of a project to measure eclipse-induced changes in surface temperature on the major Uranian satellites. Such measurements enable a uniquely direct determination of the thermal inertia, a measure of the resistance to changes in surface temperature. Thermal inertia is a very sensitive indicator for the presence or absence...

The goal of the Herschel open time key programme ``TNOs are Cool!'' is to derive the physical and thermal properties for a large sample of Centaurs and trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), including resonant, classical, detached and scattered disk objects. We present results for seven targets either observed in PACS point-source, or in mini scan-map...

Thermal emission from Kuiper belt object (136108) Haumea was measured with Herschel-PACS at 100 mum and 160 mum for almost a full rotation period. Observations clearly indicate a 100 mum thermal lightcurve with an amplitude of a factor of ~2, which is positively correlated with the optical lightcurve. This confirms that both are primarily due...