P54A:
Geophysics of Satellites and Small Bodies, Including Pluto and Charon II
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Session ID#: 14930
Session Description:
This is a session of contributed and invited papers on the geophysics of satellites and small bodies. Research is progressing rapidly due to the stream of new spacecraft and Earth-based telescope data. Additionally, there is the exciting prospect of future missions to the Jovian system. Papers are welcomed on processes that affect the interiors of individual bodies as well as the surface expressions they produce. Included are the effects and chronology of internal heating (e.g., radioactivity, tidal dissipation), structural evolution (e.g., differentiation), tides, and other processes. These geophysical processes themselves are universal in their application and transcend the compartmentalization suggested by nomenclature such as “satellite”, “dwarf planet”, “asteroid”, “comet”, “KBO”, “TNO”, “parent body”, “planetesimal”, and now small exoplanets.
Primary Convener: Ashley Gerard Davies, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Conveners: Thomas B McCord, Bear Fight Institute, Winthrop, WA, United States, Torrence V Johnson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Dennis Matson, Retired, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs: Ashley Gerard Davies, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Thomas B McCord, Bear Fight Institute, Winthrop, WA, United States
OSPA Liaison: Ashley Gerard Davies, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
John R Spencer1, Alan Stern2, Catherine Olkin1, William M Grundy3, Dale P Cruikshank4, Richard P Binzel5, Leslie Ann Young1, Kimberly Ennico Smith4, Harold A Weaver Jr6 and New Horizons Geology, Geophysics and Imaging, and Composition, Theme Teams, (1)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)MIT Rm 54-410, Cambridge, United States, (6)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
William B McKinnon1, Kelsi N Singer2, Francis Nimmo3, John R Spencer2, Leslie Ann Young2, Harold A Weaver Jr4 and S Alan Stern2, (1)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Jeffrey M Moore1, Alan D Howard2, Orkan M Umurhan3, Oliver L White1, Paul Schenk4, Ross A Beyer1, William B McKinnon5, John R Spencer6, Kelsi N Singer6, William M Grundy7, Francis Nimmo8, Leslie Ann Young6, Alan Stern9, Harold A Weaver Jr10, Catherine Olkin6, Kimberly Ennico Smith1 and Geoffrey Collins11, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (3)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States, (4)Lunar and Planetary Institute, USRA, Houston, TX, United States, (5)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (6)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (8)University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States, (9)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (11)Wheaton College, Norton, MA, United States
Katherine de Kleer1, Michael Skrutskie2, Jarron Leisenring3, Ashley Gerard Davies4, Aaron Resnick5, Albert Conrad6, Imke De Pater7, Philip Hinz3, Denis Defrere8 and Christian Veillet6, (1)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (5)Amherst College, Amherst, MA, United States, (6)University of Arizona, LBTO, Tucson, AZ, United States, (7)University of California Berkeley, Departments of Astronomy and of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States, (8)Université de Liège, Liege, Belgium
Jennifer E. C. Scully1, Debra Buczkowski2, Scott D. King3, Julie C Castillo1, Nico Schmedemann4, Carol A Raymond5, David P O'Brien6, Simone Marchi7, Christopher T Russell8, Giuseppe Mitri9 and Michael T Bland10, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (4)Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (7)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)University of California, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (9)University of Nantes, Nantes, France, (10)USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, United States
Roger R Fu1, Anton Ermakov2, Simone Marchi3, Julie C Castillo4, Carol A Raymond5, Bradford H Hager6, Maria T Zuber1, Scott D. King7, Maria Cristina De Sanctis8, Frank Preusker9, Ryan S Park4, Christopher T Russell10 and Michael T Bland11, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, (7)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (8)IAPS-INAF, Rome, Italy, (9)German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (10)University of California, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (11)USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, United States
Nicolas Ligier1, Francois Poulet2 and John Carter1, (1)IAS Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay Cedex, France, (2)IAS Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, CNRS/Univ. Paris Sud, Orsay Cedex, France
Patrick Joseph McGovern Jr, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, Prof. Paul K Byrne, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, United States, Geoffrey Collins, Wheaton College, Norton, MA, United States and Paul Schenk, Lunar and Planetary Institute, USRA, Houston, TX, United States
