P13A:
Rosetta Mission: Science From the Pre-perihelion Phase

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Session ID#: 5978

Session Description:
The Rosetta Mission is the third cornerstone mission of the ESA Horizon 2000 programme. The aim of the mission is to explore comet 67-P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with remote sensing, examine its environment in situ, and its evolution in the inner solar system. The spacecraft commenced far observation phases in March 2014, rendezvous with its target August, 2014, and in November deployed a lander to the surface. The comet's unique and intriguing shape/surface includes a bimodal nucleus with challenging topography, cliffs, boulders, etc. December, 2014, marks the beginning of the escort phase of the mission, a phase in which the comet will be observed through perihelion, then outbound through to the end of 2015. The session welcomes papers on Rosetta's mapping, landing phases, and pre-perihelion phases, including simulation and theory papers, implications for comets and solar system origins, as well as results from ground based observations of the Rosetta target comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
OSPA Liaison:  Claudia J Alexander, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Chair:  Claudia J Alexander, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Convener:  Claudia J Alexander, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Convener:  Matthew G Taylor, ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Index Terms:

6008 Composition [PLANETARY SCIENCES: COMETS AND SMALL BODIES]
6015 Dust [PLANETARY SCIENCES: COMETS AND SMALL BODIES]
6040 Origin and evolution [PLANETARY SCIENCES: COMETS AND SMALL BODIES]
6045 Physics and chemistry of materials [PLANETARY SCIENCES: COMETS AND SMALL BODIES]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • SPA - Space Physics and Aeronomy

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

P13A-01
Rosetta Lander – Philae: First Landing and Operations on a Comet (34876)
Stephan Ulamec and Jens Biele, German Aerospace Center DLR Cologne, Cologne, Germany
P13A-02
ROSINA/DFMS and IES Observations at 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: Ion Neutral Chemistry in the Coma of a Weakly Outgassing Comet (35480)
Stephen A Fuselier1, Kathrin Altwegg2, Hans Balsiger2, Jean-Jacques Berthelier3, Andre Michel Bieler4, Christelle Briois5, Thomas W Broiles6, James L Burch7, Ursina Calmonte2, Michael R Combi4, Johan MSJ De Keyser8, Björn Fiethe9, Marina F Galand10, Sébastien Gasc11, Tamas I Gombosi12, Herbert Gunell8, Kenneth C Hansen4, Myrtha Hässig6, Annette Jäckel11, Ernest Kopp2, Axel Korth13, Lena Le Roy14, Urs A. Mall13, Kathleen Mandt6, Steven M Petrinec15, Henri Rème16, Martin Rubin17, Thierry Semon11, Karlheinz J Trattner18, Chia-yu Tzou11, Jack H Waite6, Erik Vigren19, Susarla Raghuram20 and Peter Wurz21, (1)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, (3)CNRS-LATMOS, Paris, France, (4)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace, LPC2E, Orléans Cedex 2, France, (6)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (7)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (8)Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium, (9)Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, (10)Imperial College London, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom, (11)University of Bern, Physikalisches Institut, Bern, Switzerland, (12)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (13)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, (14)University of Bern, Center for Space and Habitability, Bern, Switzerland, (15)Lockheed Martin Corporation, Arlington, VA, United States, (16)IRAP, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Toulouse, France, (17)University of Bern, Physics Institute, Space Research and Planetary Sciences, Bern, Switzerland, (18)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (19)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (20)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (21)University of Bern, Space Research and Planetary Sciences, Bern, Switzerland
P13A-03
The plasma environment of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko probed with the Rosetta orbiter: Current Observations (35906)
Marilia Samara1, James L Burch2, Thomas W Broiles3, George B Clark4, Thomas Cravens5, Raymond Goldstein6, Kathleen Mandt3, Prachet Mokashi6, Craig J Pollock7 and The Rosetta Plasma Consortium Science Team, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)University of Kansas, Physics and Astronomy, Lawrence, KS, United States, (6)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
P13A-04
Millimeter and Submillimeter Observations of comet 67P/C-G with the MIRO Instrument (36610)
Mark D Hofstadter1, Paul Von Allmen2, Gerard Beaudin3, Nicolas Biver4, Dominique Bockelée-Morvan5, Mathieu Choukroun6, Jacques Crovisier4, Pierre Encrenaz3, Therese Encrenaz7, Margaret A. Frerking8, Samuel Gulkis9, Paul Hartogh10, Wing-Huen Ip11, Michael A Janssen2, Christopher Jarchow12, Stephen Joseph Keihm13, Seungwon Lee8, Emmanuel Lellouch14, Cedric Leyrat15, Ladislav Rezac16, F. Peter Schloerb17 and Thomas R Spilker18, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Observatoire de Paris, LERMA, Paris, France, (4)LESIA Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France, (5)Paris Observatory, Paris, France, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (7)Paris Observatory-PSL, LIRA, Meudon, France, (8)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (10)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany, (11)NCU National Central University of Taiwan, Jhongli, Taiwan, (12)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, (13)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (14)LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France, (15)Paris Observatory Meudon, Meudon, France, (16)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Gottingen, Germany, (17)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, (18)Independent Consultant, Pasadena, CA, United States
P13A-05
Analysis of Methanol Spectral Lines Obtained with the Microwave Instrument on the Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO) for Comet 67P/Churuymov-Gerasimenko. (36693)
Paul Von Allmen1, Seungwon Lee2, Samuel Gulkis3, Mark D Hofstadter4, F. Peter Schloerb5, Nicolas Biver6, Dominique Bockelée-Morvan7, Mathieu Choukroun8, Paul Hartogh9, Michael A Janssen1, Christopher Jarchow10, Stephen Joseph Keihm1, Emmanuel Lellouch11, Cedric Leyrat12, Ladislav Rezac13, Jacques Crovisier6, Pierre Encrenaz14, Therese Encrenaz15 and Wing-Huen Ip16, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, (6)LESIA Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France, (7)Paris Observatory, Paris, France, (8)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (9)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany, (10)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, (11)LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France, (12)Paris Observatory Meudon, Meudon, France, (13)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Planetary, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, (14)Observatoire de Paris, LERMA, Paris, France, (15)Paris Observatory-PSL, LIRA, Meudon, France, (16)National Central University, Institute of Astronomy, Kanagawa, Japan
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