P41E:
Geophysics of Satellites and Small Bodies I

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Ashley Gerard Davies, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Thomas B McCord, Bear Fight Institute, Winthrop, WA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Ashley Gerard Davies, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Dennis Matson1, Thomas B McCord2 and Torrence V Johnson1, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States(2)Bear Fight Institute, Winthrop, WA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Torrence V Johnson, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Ceres: Dawn visits a Warm Wet Planet
Thomas B McCord and Jean Philippe Combe, Bear Fight Institute, Winthrop, WA, United States
8:15 AM
 
A Brief History of Ceres
Julie C Castillo, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
8:30 AM
 
Large Impact Basins on Ceres: Probing Beneath the Icy Mantle
Timothy J Bowling1, Brandon C Johnson2, David M Blair1 and Jay Melosh IV1, (1)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
8:45 AM
 
Tides on Membrane Worlds: Europa, Titan and Co.
Mikael Beuthe, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
9:00 AM
 
Viscoelastic Membrane Tectonics on Europa
Attilio Rivoldini and Mikael Beuthe, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
9:15 AM
 
Tidal Dissipation in the Oceans of Icy Satellites
Isamu Matsuyama, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
9:30 AM
 
Thermodynamic Equations of State for Aqueous Solutions Applied to Deep Icy Satellite and Exoplanet Oceans
Steve Vance1, J Michael Brown2, Olivier Bollengier2, Baptiste Journaux3, Christophe Sotin1, Mathieu Choukroun1 and Rory Barnes2, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Université Joseph Fourier, Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Grenoble, France
9:45 AM
 
Convection and Melt Migration in Io’s Mantle
Catherine M Elder1, Paul J Tackley2 and Adam P Showman1, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
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