P42A:
Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) at Mars I

Session ID#: 1766

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
2011 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Petrus M M Jenniskens, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States and Diane H Wooden, Armagh Observatory, Armagh, United Kingdom
Primary Convener:  Petrus M M Jenniskens, SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Diana Wooden, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Apostolos Christou, Armagh Observatory, Armagh, BT61, United Kingdom and Padma A Yanamandra-Fisher, Space Science Institute, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Petrus M M Jenniskens, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

4305 Space weather [NATURAL HAZARDS]
6005 Atmospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: COMETS AND SMALL BODIES]
6022 Impact phenomena [PLANETARY SCIENCES: COMETS AND SMALL BODIES]
6023 Comets: dust tails and trails [PLANETARY SCIENCES: COMETS AND SMALL BODIES]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Comparative Planetology and Habitability

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Hubble Space Telescope View of Comet C/Siding Spring during its Close Encounter with Mars (Invited) (4976)
Jian-Yang Li1, Nalin H Samarasinha2, Michael S.P. Kelley3, Tony L. Farnham3, Dennis Bodewits4, Michael F A'Hearn5, Carey Michael Lisse6, W. A. Delamere7 and Max J. Mutchler8, (1)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, Astronomy, College Park, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, Astronomy, College Park, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (6)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)Delamere Support Services, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observation of Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) (Invited) (5579)
Leslie Tamppari1, Richard W Zurek2, Bruce A Cantor3, W. A. Delamere4, Anthony Egan5, David C Humm6, David M Kass7, Alfred S McEwen8, Andy McGovern9, Roger J Phillips5, Marco Restano10 and Roberto Seu11, (1)Jet Propulsion Lab/CALTECH, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, CA, United States, (4)Delamere Space Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)JHU Applied Physics Lab (retired), Annapolis, United States, (7)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (8)University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, United States, (9)Johns Hopkins Univ, Annapolis, MD, United States, (10)University of Rome La Sapienza, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Rome, Italy, (11)Sapienza University of Rome, DIET, Rome, Italy
Mars Express Observations During Comet Siding Spring Mars Encounter (26831)
Håkan Svedhem1, Olivier G Witasse2, Jean-Loup Bertaux3, J.-P. Bibring4, Marco Giuranna5, Donald A Gurnett6, Mats Holmstrom7, Ralf Jaumann8, Franck Montmessin3, David DeWitt Morgan9 and Roberto Orosei10, (1)European Space Agency, Noordwijk, Netherlands, (2)European Space Agency, ESTEC, Villanueva De La Can, Spain, (3)University of Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, Versailles, France, (4)Univ. de Paris Sud-Orsay, IAS, Orsay, France, (5)IAPS-INAF, Rome, Italy, (6)University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (7)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Kiruna, Kiruna, Sweden, (8)German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (9)University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (10)Istituto di Radioastronomia, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Bologna, Italy
BOPPS Observations of Oort Cloud Comets Siding and PanSTARRS (24282)
Andrew F Cheng, JHU-APL, Laurel, MD, United States, Charles Hibbitts, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Eliot F Young, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, Pietro N Bernasconi, JHU APL, Laurel, MD, United States and Tibor Kremic, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH, United States
MAVEN remote sensing observations of Comet Siding Spring and its effects on Mars (Invited) (29187)
Nicholas McCord Schneider, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Bruce Martin Jakosky, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, UNITED STATES and the MAVEN Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph Team
MAVEN In Situ Measurements of Siding Spring and its Effect on Mars (29887)
Roger V Yelle, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, United States, Bruce Martin Jakosky, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, UNITED STATES and the MAVEN Team
Imaging of comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) from the Martian surface (20089)
Mark T Lemmon1, Prof. James F Bell III, PhD2, Michael Charles Malin3, Michael J Wolff1, Justin Maki4, Jeremie Lasue5 and Stephane Le Mouelic6, (1)Space Science Institute, Boulder, United States, (2)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, United States, (3)Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, CA, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (5)Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), Toulouse, France, (6)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France
1-minute oral summaries of posters
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