Crystalline water ice on the Kuiper belt object (50000) Quaoar

@article{Jewitt2004CrystallineWI,
  title={Crystalline water ice on the Kuiper belt object (50000) Quaoar},
  author={David C. Jewitt and Jane X. Luu},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2004},
  volume={432},
  pages={731-733},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:4334385}
}
It is concluded that Quaoar has been recently resurfaced, either by impact exposure of previously buried (shielded) ices or by cryovolcanic outgassing, or by a combination of these processes.
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