Session 31. Cometary Nuclei and Dynamics

Oral, Chairs: D. Scheeres, C. Lisse, Thursday,
November 29, 2001, 2:40-4:20pm, Regency E

31.01 The Nucleus of 10 Short-Period Comets

P.L. Lamy (Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale, France), I. Toth (Konkoly Observatory, Hungary), H.A. Weaver (Johns Hopkins University), C.E. Delahodde, L. Jorda (Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale, France), M.F. A'Hearn (University of Maryland)

31.02 Low Albedos Among Candidate Extinct Cometary Nuclei

Y.R. Fernandez, D.C. Jewitt, S.S. Sheppard (UH-IfA)

31.03 The Death of Short Period Comets

C.M. Lisse (University of Maryland)

31.04 The Size Distribution of Cometary Nuclei

P. R. Weissman, S. C. Lowry (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

31.05 How Activity Can Shape the Size Distribution of Cometary Nuclei?

N.H. Samarasinha (NOAO)

31.06 Frequency of Weak Stellar Showers of Oort Cloud Comets

J. J. Matese (University of Louisana and NASA ARC), J. J. Lissauer (NASA ARC)

31.07 Dynamical evolution of comet nucleus rotation

D.J. Scheeres (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor), V.V. Sidorenko (Keldysh Inst. of Applied Math., Moscow), A.I. Neishtadt, A.A. Vasiliev (Space Research Inst., Moscow)

31.08 Constraints on the Surface Composition of Comet 28P/Neujmin 1

H. Campins (LPL, U. Arizona), J. Licandro (Centro Galileo Galilei and Telescopio Nazionale Galileo), M. Chamberlain, R.H. Brown (LPL, U. Arizona)

31.09 Leonid storms and the mass loss of comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle

P. Jenniskens (SETI Institute)

31.10 Cratering on a Comet: Expectations for Deep Impact

P. H. Schultz (Brown University)