P43C:
Solar System Small Bodies: Relics of Formation and New Worlds to Explore I Posters


Session ID#: 7984

Session Description:
The composition and physical properties of Small Solar System Bodies (SSSBs), remnants of the formation of planets, are key to better understand our solar system. Increased knowledge of their surface properties and their potential as resources are also necessary to prepare for robotic and human exploration.

Hints about the internal structure and composition of SSSBs have been acquired recently thanks to flyby/rendezvous data from space missions, study of complex multiple asteroid systems, or close encounter between asteroids. This session welcomes abstracts on the remarkable results bringing information on the internal structure and composition of SSSBs based on space and ground-based data, numerical models, AS WELL AS instrument/mission concepts in the prospect of future exploration.

Primary Convener:  Franck Marchis, SETI Institute, Mountain View, United States
Conveners:  Padma A Yanamandra-Fisher, Space Science Institute Rancho Cucamonga, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, United States and Julie C Castillo, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Chairs:  Julie C Castillo, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Franck Marchis, SETI Institute, Mountain View, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Julie C Castillo, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Index Terms:

6008 Composition [PLANETARY SCIENCES: COMETS AND SMALL BODIES]
6015 Dust [PLANETARY SCIENCES: COMETS AND SMALL BODIES]
6040 Origin and evolution [PLANETARY SCIENCES: COMETS AND SMALL BODIES]
6094 Instruments and techniques [PLANETARY SCIENCES: COMETS AND SMALL BODIES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Asteroid 951 Gaspra Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer Radiance Data (58486)
James Charles Granahan Jr, Leidos, San Diego, CA, United States
Size-Frequency Distribution of Boulders ≥ 10 m on Comet 103P/Hartley 2 (72074)
Maurizio Pajola1, Alice Lucchetti2, Michael F A'Hearn3, Ivano Bertini4, Francesco Marzari1, Fiorangela La Forgia5, Monica Lazzarin5, Giampiero Naletto6 and Cesare Barbieri4, (1)University of Padova, Padova, Italy, (2)Universita' di Padova, CISAS, Padova, Italy, (3)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (4)CISAS - Center for Studies and Activities for Space, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, (5)University of Padova, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Padova, Italy, (6)University of Padova, Department of Information Engineering, Padova, Italy

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