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

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  S Alan Stern, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Fran Bagenal, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Conveners:  William B McKinnon, Washington Univ, Saint Louis, MO, United States
Co-conveners:  S Alan Stern, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, Space Sci & Engineering Div, San Antonio, TX, United States and Fran Bagenal, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  William B McKinnon, Washington Univ, Saint Louis, MO, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
P31E-01
 
An Overview of New Horizons at the Pluto System in 2015
S Alan Stern, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, Space Sci & Engineering Div, San Antonio, TX, United States
8:15 AM
P31E-02
 
NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft and the Atmospheres of Pluto and Charon
Leslie Ann Young, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
8:30 AM
P31E-03
 
The Solar Wind Interaction with Pluto's Escaping Atmosphere
Fran Bagenal, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
8:45 AM
P31E-04
 
Geology Before Pluto: Pre-encounter Considerations
Jeffrey M Moore, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
9:00 AM
P31E-05
 
The Surface Composition Investigation for Pluto and Its Moons from the New Horizons Mission
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, MD, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)MIT Rm 54-410, Cambridge, MA, 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, CO, United States
9:12 AM
P31E-06
 
The New Horizons Radio Science Experiment: Expected Performance in Measurements of Pluto's Atmospheric Structure, Surface Pressure, and Surface Temperature
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
9:24 AM
P31E-07
 
Pluto Photochemical Models for the New Horizons Flyby
Randy Gladstone1, Michael L. Wong2 and Yuk L Yung2, (1)Southwest Research Inst, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology - Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States
9:36 AM
P31E-08
 
What will Pluto’s atmosphere look like ? Predictions from a Global Climate Model including the methane cycle.
Francois Forget, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, Melanie Vangvichith, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique UPMC, Paris, France and Tanguy Bertrand, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique Palaiseau, Palaiseau Cedex, France
9:48 AM
P31E-09
 
Impact basin relaxation as a probe for the thermal history of Pluto
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, CA, United States
 
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