On the solar nebula origin of (486958) 2014 MU69, a primordial contact binary in the Kuiper belt
William B McKinnon, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, William M Grundy, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Douglas Hamilton, University of Maryland, College Park, United States, Orkan M Umurhan, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States, James Tuttle Keane, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, John R Spencer, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, Catherine Olkin, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Harold A Weaver Jr, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, United States, S Alan Stern, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Dept Space Studies, Boulder, CO, United States and The New Horizons Science Team