P51A
Exploring the Kuiper Belt: New Horizons Reaches the Pluto System II Posters

Friday, 18 December 2015: 08:00-12:20
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Alan Stern, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Leslie Ann Young, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Jeffrey M Moore, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Chairs:  S Alan Stern, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Dept Space Studies, Boulder, CO, United States and Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Leslie Ann Young, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Crater Mapping in the Pluto-Charon System: Considerations, Approach, and Progress (73380)
Stuart J Robbins, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Shapes and Rotations of the Small Satellites of Pluto (74429)
Simon Porter1, Mark Showalter2, John R Spencer1, Harold A Weaver Jr3, Richard P Binzel4, Douglas P Hamilton5, S Alan Stern6, Catherine Olkin1, Leslie Ann Young1, Kimberly Ennico Smith7 and The New Horizons Geology, Geophysics and Imaging Science Theme Team, (1)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States, (3)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (4)MIT Rm 54-410, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (6)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
 
Photometric Properties of Nix and Hydra from New Horizons and the Hubble Space Telescope (81619)
Anne Verbiscer, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States
 
Pluto's small satellites in the context of the Kuiper Belt (75194)
Alex Harrison Parker, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Stability of coorbital objects around the Pluto-Charon binary (83316)
Andre Amarante and Douglas P Hamilton, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
Formation of Pluto’s moons: the fission hypothesis revisited (86302)
Andrew J Prentice, Monash University, School of Physics & Astronomy, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; University of Southern Queensland, Astronomy Group, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
 
The Cold and Icy Heart of Pluto (75719)
Douglas P Hamilton, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
Can the Charon-forming giant impact generate elongated dark areas on Pluto? (71209)
Yasuhito Sekine1, Hidenori Genda2 and Taro Funatsu1, (1)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (2)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro, Japan
 
Large Collisions on Icy and Rocky Bodies with Strength (71454)
Erik Davies and Sarah T Stewart, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
 
New Horizons approach photometry of Pluto and Charon: light curves and Solar phase curves (74781)
Amanda Marie Zangari1, Marc W Buie1, Bonnie J Buratti2, Anne Verbiscer3, Carly Howett1, Harold A Weaver Jr4, Catherine Olkin1, Kimberly Ennico Smith5, Leslie Ann Young1, S Alan Stern6 and The New Horizons Geology Geophysics and Imaging Science Theme Team, (1)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (4)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (6)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Dept Space Studies, Boulder, CO, United States
 
N2 glacial flow on and onto Sputnik Planum (84723)
Orkan M Umurhan1, Jeffrey M Moore2, Alan D Howard3, William B McKinnon4, Francis Nimmo5, Paul Schenk6, Oliver L White7, William M Grundy8, Alan Stern9, Catherine Olkin10, Harold A Weaver Jr11, Leslie Ann Young10, Kimberly Ennico Smith7 and The New Horizons Geology and Geophysics Investigation Team, (1)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (4)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (5)University of California-Santa Cruz, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (6)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, (7)NASA Ames Research Center, MS 245-3, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (8)Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (9)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States
 
Convection in Solid Nitrogen and Other Supervolatile Ices on Pluto (75305)
William B McKinnon1, Francis Nimmo2, Orkan M Umurhan3, Teresa Wong1, James H Roberts4, Alan Stern5, Harold A Weaver Jr6, John R Spencer7, Jeffrey M Moore8, Paul Schenk9, Catherine Olkin7, Leslie Ann Young7, Kimberly Ennico Smith8 and New Horizons Geology, Geophysics and Imaging Theme Team, (1)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (2)University of California-Santa Cruz, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (9)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
 
Understanding Pluto's Surface: Correlations between Geology and Composition (76940)
John R Spencer1, Alan Stern2, Harold A Weaver Jr3, Leslie Ann Young1, Catherine Olkin1, Kimberly Ennico Smith4, Jeffrey M Moore4, William M Grundy5 and New Horizons Science Team, (1)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
 
Tholins as Coloring Agents on Pluto (72473)
Dale P Cruikshank, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
 
Tidal Heating at Pluto and Charon as a Result of Non-Zero Obliquity (81031)
Matthew Walker, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Bruce G Bills, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Jonathan Mitchell, UCLA-Earth & Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Melting and Tectonics from Coupled Orbital and Thermal Evolution of the Pluto-Charon System (81519)
Geoffrey C Collins, Wheaton College, Norton, MA, United States and Amy C Barr, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Searching for Charon's Atmosphere (73185)
Joshua Kammer1, Alan Stern2, Leslie Ann Young1, Catherine Olkin1, Kimberly Ennico Smith3, Harold A Weaver Jr4, Randy Gladstone5, Joel W Parker1, Andrew Steffl6, Eric Schindhelm1, Thomas K Greathouse7, Kurt D Retherford7, Maarten H Versteeg5, Michael E Summers8, Darrell F Strobel9 and The New Horizons Science Team, (1)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (4)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)Southwest Research Inst, San Antonio, TX, United States, (6)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Dept Space Studies, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (8)Geo Mason-Physics & Astronomy, Fairfax, VA, United States, (9)Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
Photochemistry and Eddy Mixing in Pluto’s atmosphere (73426)
Yuk L Yung, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Michael L Wong, CalTech Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Michael E Summers, Geo Mason-Physics & Astronomy, Fairfax, VA, United States and Randy Gladstone, Southwest Research Inst, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
Ground-based Light Curves Two Pluto Days Before the New Horizons Passage (75744)
Jay M Pasachoff1,2, Bryce A Babcock1, Rebecca F Durst1, Christina H Seeger1, Stephen E Levine3, Fumio Abe4, Daisuke Suzuki5, Masayuki Nagakane6, Amanda S. Bosh3,7, Amanda A Sickafoose7,8, Michael J Person7, Carlos Zuluaga7 and Molly R Kosiarek7, (1)Williams College, Williamstown, MA, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (4)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (5)University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (6)Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, (7)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (8)South African Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa
 
New Horizons LORRI Pluto Haze Spatial Analysis (76504)
Carey Michael Lisse, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States
 
An exploration of the trans-Neptunian region through stellar occultations and MIOSOTYS. (80105)
Alain Doressoundiram1, Lucie Maquet2, Françoise Roques1, Chih-Yuan Liu3, Hsiang-Kuang Chang3, I Chun Shih4 and The MIOSOTYS Team, (1)Paris Observatory, Paris, France, (2)Paris Observatory, IMCCE, Paris, France, (3)National Tsing Hua University, Department of Physics, Hsinchu, Taiwan, (4)Observatoire de Paris, GEPI, Paris, France
 
Dust Ablation in Pluto's Atmosphere (80155)
Mihaly Horanyi, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Andrew R Poppe, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Zoltan Sternovsky, Colorado Univ, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Dust inventory through the Solar System: From Earth to Pluto (80378)
Marcus Ryan Piquette, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
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