P31B:
The Uranus and Neptune Systems and Their Relation to Other Planets I


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Session ID#: 60260

Session Description:
This session encompasses all aspects of ice-giant systems: the magnetospheres, satellites, rings, atmospheres, and interiors of Uranus and Neptune; their formation and evolution; and their relation to other planets in and beyond our solar system. Exploring Uranus and Neptune will reveal how they form, how their magnetic fields are generated, how their magnetospheres interact with the solar wind, the energy balance of their atmospheres, and the nature of their rings and satellites, particularly those seen to be active (Triton) or with young surfaces (Miranda, Ariel). Radial migration of the ice giants may have shaped the solar system as we know today. Looking beyond, the Kepler mission has shown that ice giants are common in our galaxy: most planets known today are thought to be ice giants. Observations, modeling, and theory related to the ice giants will inform the design of missions to Uranus and Neptune which are currently under consideration.
Primary Convener:  Kunio M Sayanagi, Hampton University, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, United States
Conveners:  Krista Marie Soderlund, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, Elizabeth P Turtle, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States and Xin Cao, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kunio M Sayanagi, Hampton University, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, United States
Chairs:  Xin Cao, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States and Krista Marie Soderlund, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Mark Hofstadter, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
Index Terms:

6255 Neptune [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6260 Neptunian satellites [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6290 Uranian satellites [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6293 Uranus [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Dynamical Upheaval in the Formation of the Solar System's Ice Giants (Invited) (350289)
Renata Frelikh and Ruth Murray-Clay, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
How Departures of the “Generalized Potential” from Exact Potentials for Oblate Spheroids Affect Calculations of Giant Planet Mass, Zonal Harmonics, and Satellite Properties and Orbits (417733)
Anne M Hofmeister1, Robert E Criss1 and Everett M. Criss2, (1)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (2)Panasonic Avionics Corp, Irvine, United States
How Uranus Fell Over: Consequences of Giant Impacts with High Resolution Simulations (386791)
Jacob Kegerreis1, Luis A Teodoro2, Vincent R Eke1, Richard J Massey1, Matthieu Schaller1, David C. Catling3, Christopher L Fryer4, Don Korycansky5, Michael S Warren6 and Kevin J Zahnle7, (1)Durham University, Department of Physics, Durham, United Kingdom, (2)BAER Inst, NASA Ames, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (5)CODEP, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (6)None, College Station, TX, United States, (7)NASA, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Thermochemical modeling Uranus and Neptune: how the inhibition of convection impacts the derivation of the deep oxygen abundance (358687)
Thibault Cavalié1, Olivia Venot2, Roda Bounaceur3, Franck Selsis4, Jérémy Leconte4, Franck Hersant4, Lothaire Brouillard5 and Paul Hartogh6, (1)Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Pessac, France, (2)CNRS - LISA, Créteil, France, (3)CNRS - LRGP, Nancy, France, (4)CNRS - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux - Univ. Bordeaux, Pessac, France, (5)Bordeaux University, Talence, France, (6)MPI for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
Spatially-Resolved Spectroscopy of the Ice Giants Atmospheres: Clouds, Seasonal Changes, and the Future in IR with JWST MIRI (Invited) (453422)
Michael Thomas Roman1, Leigh N. Fletcher1, Donald J Banfield2 and Peter J Gierasch3, (1)University of Leicester, School of Physics and Astronomy, Leicester, United Kingdom, (2)Cornell University, Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
A different nature of solar wind interaction with the ice giant magnetospheres (390362)
Adam Masters, Imperial College London, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
Does red dust from retrograde irregular satellites accumulate on the large moons of Uranus? (353257)
Richard J. Cartwright1,2, Dale P Cruikshank2, Joshua P Emery3 and Noemi Pinilla-Alonso4, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)Univ of Tennessee-EPS, Knoxville, TN, United States, (4)Florida Space Institute, University of Central Florida, Orlando, United States

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