Bibcode
                                    
                            Gil-Hutton, R.; Licandro, Javier
    Referencia bibliográfica
                                    Icarus, Volume 152, Issue 2, pp. 246-250 (2001).
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                        2001
            
  Revista
                                    
                            Número de citas
                                    21
                            Número de citas referidas
                                    20
                            Descripción
                                    We present V and R photometry of 16 Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) from the
3.6-m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo and the Complejo Astronómico
El Leoncito 2.1-m telescope. We find a wide dispersion in the (V-R)
colors of the objects, indicating nonuniform surface properties. If we
assume near constant albedos, there does not appear to be a general
trend of redness with size, but the color range for classical KBOs in
our sample appears to be wider than for Plutinos. Unless the albedo
value is variable for different objects, 1998 SN165 becomes
the largest Plutino so far identified, apart from Pluto (diameter=2400
km) and Charon (1200 km).