P41F
Mercury after MESSENGER I

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
2007 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Paul K Byrne, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Universities Space Research Association, Houston, TX, United States; Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Sean C Solomon, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States and Larry R Nittler, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Paul K Byrne, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States; North Carolina State University Raleigh, Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, NC, United States and Sean C Solomon, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Paul K Byrne, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States; North Carolina State University Raleigh, Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, NC, United States
08:00
Observations of the minor species Al, Fe and Ca+ in Mercury’s exosphere (85274)
Thomas A Bida, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
08:15
The Substorm Cycle at Mercury (79546)
Suzanne M Imber, Radio and Space Plasma Physics, Leicester, United Kingdom
08:30
Mapping Mercury’s magnetic topology with solar energetic electrons (Invited) (60807)
Daniel J Gershman1,2, Jim M Raines3, James A Slavin4, Thomas Zurbuchen4, Brian J Anderson5, Haje Korth6, George C Ho6, Scott A Boardsen7, Timothy A Cassidy8, Brian Walsh9 and Sean C Solomon10, (1)Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (6)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (10)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
08:45
Subsurface carbon-bearing material on Mercury revealed by the MESSENGER Gamma-Ray and Neutron Spectrometer (72292)
Patrick N Peplowski1, Rachel L Klima2, David J Lawrence3, Carolyn M Ernst4, Brett Wilcox Denevi4, John O Goldsten5, Scott L Murchie1, Larry R Nittler6 and Sean C Solomon7, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)JHU Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins Univ/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (6)Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, DC, United States, (7)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
09:00
Radiative Transfer Modeling of MESSENGER VIR Spectra of Mercury: Detection and Mapping of Submicroscopic Carbon (70148)
David Trang, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, Paul G Lucey, Hawaii Inst Geophys & Planetol, Honolulu, HI, United States and Noam Izenberg, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States
09:15
Amount, Timing, and Rate of Global Contraction on Mercury (Invited) (61491)
Christian Klimczak1,2, Paul K Byrne3,4, Maria E Banks5,6 and Sean C Solomon1,7, (1)Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States, (2)University of Georgia, Department of Geology, Athens, GA, United States, (3)North Carolina State University Raleigh, Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, NC, United States, (4)Carnegie Inst Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States, (5)Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, Washington, DC, United States, (6)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (7)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
09:30
What’s Up With Mercury's 2nd-Degree Shape? (Invited) (83011)
Erinna Chen, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
09:45
Thermochemical Evolution of Mercury’s Lower Mantle Linked to Early Volcanism (61510)
Alexander J Evans1,2, Stephanie M Brown3, Bernard Charlier4, Timothy L Grove5, Peter B. James1 and Sean C Solomon2, (1)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)University of Liege, Department of Geology, Sart Tilman, Belgium, (5)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
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