Session 51. Kuiper Belt

Contributed Oral Parallel Session, Friday, October 16, 1998, 10:35-11:55am, Madison Ballroom D

51.01 Two Distinct Populations of Kuiper Belt Objects

S.C. Tegler (Northern Arizona Univ), W. Romanishin (Univ Oklahoma)

51.02 Spectroscopic observations of Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt (EKB) objects

M.A. Barucci (Paris Obs.), D. J. Tholen (Univ. Hawaii), A. Doressoundiram (Torino Obs.), M. Fulchignoni (Univ. Paris VII), M. Lazzarin (Padova Obs.)

51.03 Physical Studies of Kuiper Belt Objects with NICMOS

K. S. Noll (STScI), J. Luu (Leiden Univ.)

51.04 Infrared Spectroscopy of Centaurs and Irregular Satellites

Michael E. Brown (Caltech)

51.05 Evolution of an Initial Massive Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt: Accretion and Collisional History

D. R. Davis (Planetary Science Institute), P. Farinella (Universit'a di Pisa)

51.06 Collisional and Cratering Rates in the Kuiper Belt: Applications to Surface Activation and Modification

D. D. Durda, S. A. Stern (Southwest Research Institute)

51.07 Simulations of the Formation of the Oort Cloud of Comets

L. Dones (NASA Ames and SJSU Foundation), M. J. Duncan (Queen's University), H. F. Levison (Southwest Research Institute, Boulder), P. R. Weissman (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

51.08 Stellar Perturbations of the Kuiper Belt

Paul R. Weissman (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)