Session 44. Rings II

Contributed Oral Parallel Session, Chair: L. Spilker, L. Molnar, Thursday, October 14, 1999, 10:30am-12:00noon, Sala Astrolabio Kursaal

44.01 Ring plane crossings and Saturn's pole precession.

P.D. Nicholson (Cornell), R.G. French (Wellesley), A.S. Bosh (Lowell)

44.02 The Orbit of Prometheus at the Voyager Epochs

M.W. Evans, C.D. Murray (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London), C.C. Porco (LPL/University of Arizona)

44.03 Light Scattering in Planetary Rings: the Nature of Saturn's Particle Disk

C.C. Porco, M.J. Pantazopoulou (LPL/UofA), D. Richardson, T. Quinn (U. Washington), T.J.J. Kehoe (LPL/UofA)

44.04 Radiative Transfer Code as Applied to Saturn's Rings

D.E. Dunn (U.C. Berkeley), L.A. Molnar (Calvin College), J.D. Fix (U.A. Huntsville)

44.05 Fall 1998 Radio Observations of Saturn's Rings: New Evidence of Ring Wakes

L. A. Molnar (Calvin College), D. E. Dunn (U. C. Berkeley), J. T. Niehof (Calvin College)

44.06 Density Wave Dispersion Behavior in Saturn's A Ring

L.J. Spilker (JPL/Caltech)

44.07 Effects of heat flux and nonlocal transport on the viscous overstability in Saturns B ring

J. Schmidt (University of Potsdam, Germany), H. Salo (University of Oulu, Finland), F. Spahn, O. Petzschmann (University of Potsdam, Germany)

44.08 Revenge of the Sheep: Effects of Saturn's F Ring on the Orbit of Prometheus

M. R. Showalter (Stanford), L. Dones (SWRI), J. J. Lissauer (NASA Ames)

44.09 Influence of the Initial Motion of Ejecta and of Plasma Drag on the Shape of Saturn's E Ring

K. U. Thiessenhusen, F. Spahn, J. Schmidt (Universit\"at Potsdam, Germany), A. Krivov (Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Aeronomie, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany and St. Petersburg University, Russia)