Session 113. New Science Prospects with 100-Day Ballooning

Special, Oral, Saturday, January 9, 1999, 10:00-11:30am, Room 9 (C)

113.01 Searching for Extra-solar Planets with a Diffraction-Limited Balloon Borne Telescope

H. C. Ford (JHU), L. D. Petro, R. Allen, P. Bely, C. J. Burrows, J. Krist, M. Rafal, R. L. White (STScI), W. Jaffe, R. Le Poole (U. Leiden), J. Crocker (JHU), M. A. Dopita (ANU), J. E. Grindlay (CfA)

113.02 Hard X-ray Imaging Sky Survey (EXIST-LITE) From a ULDB Mission

J. E. Grindlay (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

113.03 A Stratospheric Observatory for Astronomical Research (SOAR)

G. G. Fazio, G. J. Melnick (SAO)

113.04 Diffraction Limited Imaging of the Sun from a Balloon

A. M. Title, W. J. Rosenberg (Lockheed Martin Advance Technology Center)

113.05 Advanced Capabilities and Mission Scenarios for Ultra Long Duration Ballooning

J. Tueller (NASA/GSFC)