P13F:
Pluto and Charon in the Rear View, MU69 Dead Ahead off the Starboard Bow II
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Session ID#: 32333
Session Description:
New Horizons’ July 2015 encounter with the Pluto system revolutionized our understanding of dwarf planets and the Kuiper belt. Data return only ended recently, in October 2016. This session invites contributions on Pluto, its moons, atmosphere, and solar wind interaction — and including modeling, supporting laboratory experiments, and theoretical interpretation. As of April 2017, New Horizons is more than halfway from Pluto to its 1 January 2019 rendezvous with KBO 2014 MU69, a more modest Kuiper belt body in comparison, yet one that promises to unlock secrets of the primordial Solar System. Contributions to this session are also sought on MU69, including predictions for the upcoming encounter, and on MU69’s broader Kuiper belt context.
Primary Convener: William B McKinnon, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
Conveners: William B McKinnon, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, Kelsi N Singer, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs: Kelsi N Singer, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States and Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison: William B McKinnon, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
S Alan Stern, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Dept Space Studies, Boulder, United States and The New Horizons Team
Leslie Ann Young1, Randy Gladstone2, Michael E Summers3, Darrell F Strobel4, Joshua Kammer5, David P Hinson6, William M Grundy7, Dale P Cruikshank8, Silvia Protopapa9, Bernard Schmitt10, Alan Stern11, Harold A Weaver Jr12, Catherine Olkin5, Kimberly Ennico Smith13 and The New Horizons Science Team, (1)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (3)George Mason University Fairfax, Physics & Astronomy, Fairfax, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD, United States, (5)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, United States, (7)Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, United States, (8)NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA, United States, (9)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (10)Laboratoire de Planétologie de Grenoble (LPG), Grenoble, France, (11)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States, (12)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States, (13)NASA Ames, Moffet Field, CA, United States
Catherine Olkin1, John R Spencer2, William M Grundy3, Alex Harrison Parker4, Ross A Beyer5, Dennis Reuter6, Paul Schenk7, Alan Stern2, Harold A Weaver Jr8, Leslie A Young2, Kimberly Ennico Smith9 and and the New Horizons Surface Composition Team, (1)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States, (3)Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Lunar and Planetary Institute, USRA, Houston, TX, United States, (8)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States, (9)NASA Ames, Moffet Field, CA, United States
Christopher R Glein, Southwest Research Institute, Space Science and Engineering Division, San Antonio, TX, United States and Jack H Waite, Department of Space Science, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States
Kelsi N Singer1, Paul Schenk2, Oliver L White3, Jeffrey M Moore4, William B McKinnon5, William M Grundy6, John R Spencer7, Alan Stern7, Jason Campbell Cook8, Francis Nimmo9, Alan D Howard10, Dale P Cruikshank11, Ross A Beyer12, Orkan M Umurhan4, Tod Lauer13, Harold A Weaver Jr14, Leslie A Young7 and Kimberly Ennico Smith15, (1)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Lunar and Planetary Institute, USRA, Houston, TX, United States, (3)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, (4)NASA, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, United States, (6)Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, United States, (7)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States, (8)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, (9)University of California, Santa Cruz, Department Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States, (10)University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (11)NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA, United States, (12)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (13)National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, AZ, United States, (14)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States, (15)NASA Ames, Moffet Field, CA, United States
Harold A Weaver Jr1, Marc W Buie2, Carly Howett2, Catherine Olkin2, Alex Harrison Parker2, J. Wm. Parker3, S. B. Porter3, Stuart J Robbins2, Kelsi N Singer4, John R Spencer4, Alan Stern4, L A Young3, Amanda Marie Zangari5, Tod Lauer6, Mark Showalter7, Anne Verbiscer8, William B McKinnon9, Jason Campbell Cook10, William M Grundy11, Silvia Protopapa12, Douglas P Hamilton13, Bernard Schmitt14, Bonnie J Buratti15, R P Binzel16, Donald E Jennings17, Dennis Reuter17, Dale P Cruikshank18, Cristina Dalle Ore19, Kimberly Ennico Smith20, Jeffrey M Moore21, Andrew F. Cheng22, Carey Michael Lisse23 and New Horizons Science Team, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States, (5)Unaffiliated, Lexington, MA, United States, (6)National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, AZ, United States, (7)SETI Institute, Mountain View, United States, (8)University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (9)Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, United States, (10)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, (11)Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, United States, (12)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (13)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (14)Laboratoire de Planétologie de Grenoble (LPG), Grenoble, France, (15)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (16)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (17)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (18)NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA, United States, (19)SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, United States, (20)NASA Ames, Moffet Field, CA, United States, (21)NASA, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (22)JHU/APL, Laurel, United States, (23)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States
Marc W Buie1, S. B. Porter1, Dirk Terrell2, Peter Tamblyn3, Anne Verbiscer4, Alejandro Soto5, Lawrence H Wasserman6, Amanda Marie Zangari7, Michael Skrutskie4, Alex Harrison Parker5, Eliot F Young5, Susan Benecchi8, S Alan Stern2 and The New Horizons MU69 Occultation Team, (1)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States, (3)Binary Astronomy LLC, Dillon, CO, United States, (4)University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (5)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, United States, (7)Unaffiliated, Lexington, MA, United States, (8)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, United States
Jeffrey M Moore1, William M Grundy2, John R Spencer3, William B McKinnon4, Dale P Cruikshank5, Oliver L White6, Orkan M Umurhan7, Ross A Beyer1, Kelsi N Singer3, Paul Schenk8, Alan Stern3, Harold A Weaver Jr9, Catherine Olkin10 and The New Horizons Science Team, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States, (4)Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, United States, (5)NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA, United States, (6)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, (7)NASA, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (8)Lunar and Planetary Institute, USRA, Houston, TX, United States, (9)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States, (10)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
