P31E:
In Advance of the Encounter: New Horizons at the Pluto System I

Session ID#: 3257

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
3003 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  S Alan Stern, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
Primary Convener:  William B McKinnon, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, United States
Co-conveners:  S Alan Stern, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, Space Sci & Engineering Div, San Antonio, TX, United States and Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison:  William B McKinnon, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • C - Cryosphere
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Index Terms:

5422 Ices [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5455 Origin and evolution [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5464 Remote sensing [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6270 Pluto and satellites [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

P31E-01
An Overview of New Horizons at the Pluto System in 2015 (Invited) (5773)
S Alan Stern, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, Space Sci & Engineering Div, San Antonio, TX, United States and The New Horizons Team
P31E-02
NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft and the Atmospheres of Pluto and Charon (Invited) (18080)
Leslie Ann Young, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and New Horizons Atmospheres Science Theme Team
P31E-03
The Solar Wind Interaction with Pluto's Escaping Atmosphere (6625)
Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
P31E-04
Geology Before Pluto: Pre-encounter Considerations (Invited) (9809)
Jeffrey M Moore, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States and The New Horizons Science Team
P31E-05
The Surface Composition Investigation for Pluto and Its Moons from the New Horizons Mission (26040)
Catherine Olkin1, William M Grundy2, S Alan Stern1, Harold A Weaver Jr3, Leslie Ann Young1, Kimberly Ennico Smith4, Richard P Binzel5, Dale P Cruikshank4, Donald E Jennings6, Joel Wm. Parker7, Dennis Reuter6 and John R Spencer8, (1)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (3)The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)MIT Rm 54-410, Cambridge, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Dept Space Studies, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States
P31E-06
The New Horizons Radio Science Experiment: Expected Performance in Measurements of Pluto's Atmospheric Structure, Surface Pressure, and Surface Temperature (17894)
David P Hinson1, Ivan Linscott2, William W Woods2, G Leonard Tyler2, Michael Keith Bird3, Martin Paetzold4 and Darrell F Strobel5, (1)SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Univ Bonn, Bonn, Germany, (4)Univ Cologne, Cologne, Germany, (5)Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD, United States
P31E-07
Pluto Photochemical Models for the New Horizons Flyby (16992)
Randy Gladstone1, Michael L. Wong2 and Yuk L Yung2, (1)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology - Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States
P31E-08
What will Pluto’s atmosphere look like ? Predictions from a Global Climate Model including the methane cycle. (28271)
Francois Forget1, Melanie Vangvichith1 and Tanguy Bertrand2, (1)Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique UPMC, Paris, France, (2)Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique Palaiseau, Palaiseau Cedex, France
P31E-09
Impact basin relaxation as a probe for the thermal history of Pluto (14885)
Shunichi Kamata, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Francis Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States
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