Session 32. Comet Comae I

Contributed Oral Parallel Session, Chair: W.M. Irvine, D.C. Boice, Wednesday, October 13, 1999, 8:30-10:00am, Sala Plenaria

32.01 Latest Results On Cometary X-ray Emission

C.M. Lisse (Space Telescope Science Institute)

32.02 The Composition of Ices in Comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp): Upper Limits on Undetected Species from Radio Spectroscopy.

J. Crovisier, D. Bockel\'ee-Morvan, P. Colom (Observatoire de Paris-Meudon), N. Biver (Institute for Astronomy, Univ. Hawaii), D. Despois (Observatoire de Bordeaux), D. Lis, D.J. Benford (CalTech), D. Mehringer (Univ. Illinois)

32.03 A New Cometary Molecule: Nitrogen Sulfide

W.M. Irvine, A.J. Lovell, M. Senay (Astronomy, UMass), H.E. Matthews (NRC Canada \& JAC), R.B. Metz (Chemistry, UMass), R. Meier (IfA, UHawaii), D. McGonagle (Pope John XXIII Natl. Seminary)

32.04 CSHELL observations of comets Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake near the 3 \mum region: HCN and C₂H₂

K. Magee-Sauer (Rowan Univ.), M. J. Mumma (NASA GSFC), M. A. DiSanti, N. Dello Russo (NASA GSFC / Catholic Univ.), T. W. Rettig (Notre Dame)

32.05 Infrared Investigation of Parent Molecules in Comet C/Lee (1999~H1)

H.A. Weaver (JHU), J.K. Davies, T. Kerr (JAC), W. Vacca, N. Biver (IfA/UH), D. Bockel\'ee-Morvan, J. Crovisier (Meudon), T.Y. Brooke (JPL), G. Chin (GSFC), S.J. Kim (Kyunghee)

32.06 Detection of ethane, methane, OH and other volatile species in comet C/1999 H1 (Lee) with NIRSPEC at the Keck Observatory

M. J. Mumma (NASA GSFC), N. Dello Russo, M. DiSanti (Catholic Univ. and NASA GSFC), A. M. Gilbert, J. R. Graham (Univ. Cal. Berkeley), I. S. McLean, E. E. Becklin (Univ. Cal. Los Angeles), D. F. Figer (STScI), J. E. Larkin (Univ. Cal. Los Angeles), N. A. Levenson (Johns Hopkins UNiv.), H. I. Teplitz (NASA GSFC), M. K. Wilcox (Univ. Cal. Los Angeles)

32.07 An S2 fluorescence model for interpreting high-resolution cometary spectra

C. Reylé (Observatoire de Besançon), D.C. Boice (SwRI)

32.08 S₂ in Comet Hyakutake

M. F. A'Hearn, D. D. Wellnitz, L. Woodney (UMd), P. D. Feldman, H. A. Weaver (JHU), C. Arpigny (U. Liege), R. Meier (Xerox), W. M. Jackson (UC-Davis), S. J. Kim (KyungheeU)

32.09 The CN coma of comets at High Spectral Resolution

M.C. Festou (SWRI), A.L. Cochran (Univ. of TX), J.-M. Zucconi (Obs. de Besancon, F), E.S. Barker, W.D. Cochran (Univ. of TX)