Session 1. Asteroids: NEAR, Here and Over There

Contributed Oral Parallel Session, Chair: M. Lazzarin, L.A. McFadden, Monday, October 11, 1999, 9:00-10:00am, Sala Plenaria

1.01 The NEAR Mission: Results to Date (Invited)

A. F. Cheng (Applied Phys Lab Johns Hopkins Univ), NEAR Team

1.02 NEAR Lightcurves of Eros: Evidence for Albedo Variation at Lons 240-300

B.E. Clark, J. Veverka, P.C. Thomas, J. Joseph, B.T. Carcich, P. Helfenstein (Cornell University), S. Murchie, D. Domingue (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory), M.S. Robinson (Northwestern University), W. Owen (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), W.J. Merline (Southwest Research Institute)

1.03 NEAR's Near Infrared Spectrometer: Expectations for Eros Mapping

L.A. McFadden, D.D. Wellnitz (U. Maryland), J.F. Bell III, P. Martin, B.E. Clark, A. Harch, M. Bell, P. Thomas, J. Veverka (Cornell U.), N. Izenberg, J. Warren, S. Murchie (JHU/APL), C.R. Chapman (SWRI), P.G. Lucey (U. Hawaii)

1.04 6489 Golevka revisited: New evidence for a pyroxene-rich near-Earth asteroid.

M.D. Hicks, M.S. Hanner, D.L. Rabinowitz, B.J. Buratti (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), T.L. Hayward (Cornell University), U. Fink (LPL, University of Arizona), W. Grundy (Lowell Observatory)

1.05 Looking for Parent Bodies of km-sized NEAs

V. Zappala, A. Cellino, P. Michel, P. Tanga (Astronomical Obesrvatory of Torino)