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Xiaochen Mao

Lecturer
Office: Kingsbury Hall, Durham, NH 03824
Websites:
Pronouns: He/Him/His

Selected Publications

  • McKinnon, W. B., Mao, X., Schenk, P. M., Singer, K. N., Robbins, S. J., White, O. L., . . . Olkin, C. B. (2022). Snow Crash: Compaction Craters on (486958) Arrokoth and Other Small KBOs, With Implications. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(13). doi:10.1029/2022gl098406

  • Keane, J. T., Porter, S. B., Beyer, R. A., Umurhan, O. M., McKinnon, W. B., Moore, J. M., . . . Singer, K. N. (2022). The Geophysical Environment of (486958) Arrokoth—A Small Kuiper Belt Object Explored by New Horizons. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 127(6). doi:10.1029/2021je007068

  • Mao, X., McKinnon, W. B., Singer, K. N., Keane, J. T., Beyer, R. A., Greenstreet, S., . . . Olkin, C. B. (2021). Collisions of Small Kuiper Belt Objects With (486958) Arrokoth: Implications for Its Spin Evolution and Bulk Density. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 126(12). doi:10.1029/2021je006961

  • Mao, X., & McKinnon, W. B. (2020). Spin evolution of Ceres and Vesta due to impacts. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 55(11), 2493-2518. doi:10.1111/maps.13594

  • McKinnon, W. B., Richardson, D. C., Marohnic, J. C., Keane, J. T., Grundy, W. M., Hamilton, D. P., . . . New Horizons Science Team. (2020). The solar nebula origin of (486958) Arrokoth, a primordial contact binary in the Kuiper Belt.. Science, 367(6481). doi:10.1126/science.aay6620

  • Mao, X., & McKinnon, W. B. (2018). Corrigendum to “Faster paleospin and deep-seated uncompensated mass as possible explanations for Ceres’ present-day shape and gravity” [Icarus 299 (2018) 430-442]. Icarus, 303, 288. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2017.11.020

  • Mao, X., & McKinnon, W. B. (2018). Faster paleospin and deep-seated uncompensated mass as possible explanations for Ceres’ present-day shape and gravity. Icarus, 299, 430-442. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2017.08.033

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