The Size Distribution of Kuiper Belt Objects
The Size Distribution of Kuiper Belt Objects
We describe analytical and numerical collisional evolution calculations for the size distribution of icy bodies in the Kuiper belt. For a wide range of bulk properties, initial masses, and orbital parameters, our results yield power-law cumulative size distributions, NC ∝ r-q, with qL ≈ 3.5 for large bodies (with radii …