P12B:
The Science of Exploration As Enabled By the Moon, Near-Earth Asteroids, and the Moons of Mars II

Session ID#: 4561

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
2008 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Brad E Bailey, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Yvonne J Pendleton, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Primary Convener:  Brad E Bailey, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Yvonne J Pendleton, University of Central Florida, Orlando, United States, David Morrison, NASA, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Gregory K Schmidt, NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, Moffett Field, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Brad E Bailey, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

6205 Asteroids [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6207 Comparative planetology [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6230 Martian satellites [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6250 Moon [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

P12B-01
Redox State of Iron in Lunar Glasses using X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Multivariate Analysis (Invited) (6880)
Melinda Darby Dyar1, Molly C McCanta2, Antonio Lanzirotti3, Stephen R Sutton4, C J Carey5, Sridhar Mahadevan5 and Malcolm J Rutherford6, (1)Mount Holyoke College, Department of Astronomy, South Hadley, United States, (2)Tufts University, Medford, United States, (3)Center for Advanced Radiation Sources, University of Chicago, Chicago, United States, (4)The University of Chicago, Center for Advanced Radiation Sources, Argonne, IL, United States, (5)University of Massachusetts Amherst, School of Computer Science, Amherst, MA, United States, (6)Brown Univ, Providence, RI, United States
P12B-02
Mapping the Vertical Structure of the Lunar Regolith in Volcanic Regions and at Constellation Sites (17080)
Lynn M Carter, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, United States, Rebecca R Ghent, Planetary Science Intitute, Tuscon, United States, Joshua L Bandfield, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States and Bruce A Campbell, Smithsonian Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, Washington, United States
P12B-03
Impact melts of the Orientale and Imbrium basins (Invited) (22389)
Paul Spudis, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
P12B-04
Lunar Impact ejecta: The View from Radar and Thermal Infrared Observations (25824)
Rebecca R Ghent1, Lynn M Carter2, Christian J. Tai Udovicic1, Joshua L Bandfield3 and Bruce A Campbell4, (1)University of Toronto, Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, United States, (3)Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Smithsonian Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, Washington, United States
P12B-05
Ancient Lunar Volcanism: Distribution and Mineralogy of Cryptomaria (26774)
Jennifer L Whitten, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States and James W Head III, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States
P12B-06
Transitional Lava Flows As Potential Analogues for Lunar Impact Melts (Invited) (6217)
Catherine Neish, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
P12B-07
Evolution of Intrusions in Lunar Floor-Fractured Craters: Degassing, Solidification and Relationship to Tectonic and Volcanic Features (26799)
Lauren Jozwiak, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States and James W Head III, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States
P12B-08
A review of Phobos surface features (30106)
Heather D Smith, KIPR NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States
P12B-09
A New and Improved Model of the Near-Earth Object Population (19366)
William F Bottke Jr1, Mikael Granvik2, Alessandro Morbidelli3, Robert Jedicke4, Bryce Bolin5, Edward Charles Beshore6, David Vokrouhlicky7, David Nesvorny1 and Patrick Michel8, (1)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, (3)Observatory Cote D'Azur, Nice Cedex 04, France, (4)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States, (5)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (6)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (7)Charles University, Institute of Astronomy, Prague, Czech Republic, (8)UNS-CNRS-Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Laboratoire Lagrange, Nice, France
P12B-10
Exploration of the Moon to Enable Lunar and Planetary Science (15824)
Clive Robert Neal, Univ Notre Dame, Notre Dame, United States
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