Session 50. Mercury

Contributed Oral Parallel Session, Friday, October 16, 1998, 9:50-10:40am, Madison Ballroom C

50.01 Evidence for the Powdered, Glassy Nature of the Mercurian Surface

B. L. Cooper (B. Cooper and Associates), A. E. Potter, Jr. (Lunar and Planetary Institute), R. M. Killen (Southwest Research Institute), T.H. Morgan (NASA Headquarters)

50.02 Evidence for a Non-Thermal Corona About Mercury

R. M. Killen (Southwest Research Institute), A. E. Potter (Lunar and Planetary Institute), A. Fitzsimmons (Queens Univ., Belfast), T. H. Morgan (SwRI)

50.03 Rapid Changes in the Sodium Atmosphere of Mercury

A. E. Potter (Lunar and Planetary Institute), R. M. Killen (Southwest Research Institute), T. H. Morgan (NASA Headquarters)

50.04 Mercury's Atmospheric Na Abundance: Very High over Mid-latitude Radar-Bright Spots

A.L. Sprague, W.J. Schmitt, R.E. Hill (LPL, U of AZ)

50.05 Mercury Rotation Parameters from Inter-Year Interferometry

M. A. Slade (JPL/Caltech), J. K. Harmon (NAIC/Arecibo), R. M. Goldstein, R. F. Jurgens, E. M. Standish (JPL/Caltech)