A Statistical Test for the Population of Contact Binaries in the Kuiper Belt

Mark Showalter1, Susan Benecchi2, Marc W Buie3, William M Grundy4, James Tuttle Keane5, Carey Michael Lisse6, Catherine Olkin7, Simon Porter7, Stuart J Robbins3, Kelsi N Singer3, Anne Verbiscer8, Harold A Weaver Jr9, Amanda Marie Zangari10, Douglas P Hamilton11, David E. Kaufmann7, Tod Lauer12, Douglas S. Mehoke13, Thomas S. Mehoke13, John R Spencer3, Henry Throop14, Joel Wm Parker3, S Alan Stern15 and The New Horizons Geology, Geophysics, and Imaging (GGI) Team, (1)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States, (2)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (5)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)JHU-APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (9)The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, United States, (10)Unaffiliated, Lexington, MA, United States, (11)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (12)National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, AZ, United States, (13)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (14)Planetary Science Institute Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (15)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Dept Space Studies, Boulder, CO, United States