Session 38. The Moon and Mercury

Contributed Oral Parallel Session, Chair: A.E. Potter, Wednesday, October 13, 1999, 11:00am-12:00noon, Sala Pietro d'Abano

38.01 Observations of the Lunar Sodium Atmosphere during the 1999 Quadrantids Meteor Shower

S. Verani (ISSI, Bern), C. Barbieri (Universit\`a di Padova), C. Benn (ING, La Palma), G. Cremonese (Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova), M. Mendillo (Center for Space Physics, Boston U.)

38.02 Automatic classification of spectral units in the Aristarchus plateau

S. Erard, S. Le Mou\'{e}lic, Y. Langevin (IAS, Orsay)

38.03 Enhancement of the Moon’s Sodium Tail Following the Leonid Meteor Shower of 1998.

J. K. Wilson, S. M. Smith, J. Baumgardner, M. Mendillo (Boston University)

38.04 High-Resolution Radar Imaging of Mercury's North Pole with the upgraded Arecibo Radar

M. A. Slade (JPL/Caltech), J. K. Harmon, P. J. Perillat (NAIC/Arecibo), R. F. Jurgens (JPL/Caltech), L.J. Harcke (Stanford University)

38.05 Lunar Prospector's Impact in a Cold Trap to Detect Water Ice

D. B. Goldstein (U. Texas at Austin), E. S. Barker (McDonald Observatory), R. S. Nerem, J. V. Austin (U. Texas at Austin), A. Storrs (STSCI), A. Stern (SWRI), T. Bida (Keck), T. Morgan (NASA-HQ), A. B. Binder (Lunar Research Institute), W. C. Feldman (LANL)