Loading, Relaxation and Tidal Wander at Sputnik Planum, Pluto
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Bierson, D.P. Hamilton, J. M. Moore, W. B. McKinnon, S. A. Stern, L. A. Young, H. A. Weaver, C. B. Olkin, K. Ennico, and the New Horizons GGI Team, Dept. Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA ([email protected]), Dept. Astronomy, Univ. Maryland, College Park MD 20742, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035. Dept. Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, Southwest Research Institute,1050 Walnut St. Suite 300, Boulder, CO 80302, 6 Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723
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