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Planetary Science Seminar winter-2025

Connecting the compositions of Outer Solar System Small Bodies with JWST

March 13, 2025, noon - 1 p.m.
3853 Slichter Hall

Presented By:
Matthew Belyakov
Caltech

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Dynamical instability models for early Solar System evolution predict a shared origin for Trojans, Irregular satellites, and the Kuiper Belt. However, the observational evidence for this connection remains sparse. In this talk I will present the JWST spectra of the giant planet irregular satellites in the context of other small body populations in the outer solar system, seeking to explain their compositional diversity.