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Pluto and Charon's UV spectra from IUE to New Horizons

Stern, S. Alan; Schindhelm, Rebecca; Gladstone, Randy +1 more

We compare Mid-Ultraviolet (MUV) spectra of Pluto taken over a period of 20 years by the International Ultraviolet Explorer, the HST-Faint Object Spectrograph, and the HST-Cosmic Origins Spectrograph. We extract Pluto-only spectra from the IUE data and associate them with corrected longitudes when necessary. Comparing them with HST spectra provide…