Session 40. Comets III

Contributed Oral Parallel Session, Thursday, October 15, 1998, 1:00-2:20pm, Madison Ballroom C

40.01 Empirical Properties of Individual Active Areas on the Surface of Halley's comet

Michael J. S. Belton (NOAO), Lynn M. Carter (University of Illinois), Nalin H. Samarasinha (NOAO), William H. Julian (NMSU)

40.02 Tentative Identification of the Parent of CN radicals in Comets: = C₂N₂

M.C. Festou (SWRI, Boulder, CO), O. Barale (OMP, Toulouse, F), T. Davidge (Dom. Ast. Obs.), S. A. Stern (SWRI, Boulder, CO), G. P. Tozzi (Firenze Obs., It.), M. Womack (St Cloud State Univ., USA), J. M. Zucconi (Besanceon Obs., F)

40.03 Influence of the energy input on the vapor flux of H₂O and and

J. Benkhoff (DLR)

40.04 The Photodegradation of Polyoxymethylene in far U.V.

H. Cottin, M.C. Gazeau, J.F. Doussin, F. Raulin (LISA, Université Paris XII, 94000 Créteil, France)

40.05 A New View of the SL9-Jupiter Impacts Based on the SPIREX Results

S. A. Severson (University of Chicago)

40.06 The Role of Fatigue Fracture and Erosion in the Production of Cometary Dust/Ice Grains

J. R. Green, C. L. Folsom (Caltech/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

40.07 Microwave analog study of light-scattering properties of aggregate particles for intepretation of cometary dust observations

L. Kolokolova, B.\AA.S. Gustafson, J. Thomas-Osip, J. Loesel (UF)

40.08 Modeling Cometary Dust Productions Rates Post Perihelion

Horst U. Keller, Kai Rembor (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie, Max-Planck-Str. 2, 37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany)