Session 12. Comets: Comae, Tails, Solar Wind Interaction

Oral, Chair(s): A. Cochran and L.M. Woodney, Tuesday, October 8, 2002, 1:30-3:30pm, Ballroom

12.01 Narrowband Photometric Results for Comets LINEAR (2000 WM1) and Ikeya-Zhang (2002 C1)

D. G. Schleicher (Lowell Obs.), P. V. Birch (Perth Obs.)

12.02 The HNC/HCN Ratio in Comets C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR) and C/2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang)

W.M. Irvine, D. McGonagle (UMass), P. Bergman (Onsala Space Obs.), T.B. Lowe (JAC), H.E. Matthews (JAC & HIA), A. Nummelin (Chalmers), T.C. Owen (UHawaii)

12.03 SWAN Observations of C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR)

J.T.T Mäkinen (Finnish Meteorological Institute), J.-L. Bertaux, E. Quémerais (Service d'Aéronomie, France), E. Kyrölä, W. Schmidt (Finnish Meteorological Institute), R. Lallement (Service d'Aéronomie, France)

12.04 Spatially-resolved Spectroscopy of C/2002~C1 (Ikeya-Zhang) with HST

H. A. Weaver (JHU/APL), P. D. Feldman (JHU), M. F. A'Hearn (UMD), C. Arpigny (U. Liège), M. R. Combi (U. Michigan), M. C. Festou (Obs. Midi-Pyrénées), G.-P. Tozzi (Arcetri)

12.05 Thermal Infrared Observations of Comet C/2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang)

M. D. Hicks, M. S. Hanner (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)

12.06 SOHO Observations of 96P/Machholz 1 at Perihelion

C.M. Lisse (University of Maryland), Y.R. Fernandez (University of Hawaii), D.A. Biesecker (NASA/GSFC)

12.07 Imaging and Narrowband Photometry of Comet 81P/Wild~2 in Support of the Stardust Spacecraft Encounter

T.L. Farnham (Univ. of Maryland), D.G. Schleicher (Lowell Obs.)

12.08 Water Production and Release in Comets from Hot-Band Fluorescence near 2.9 microns.

N. Dello Russo, M. A. DiSanti (CUA/GSFC), K. Magee-Sauer (Rowan University), E. Gibb (NRC/GSFC), M. J. Mumma (GSFC)

12.09 A Comparison of the Volatile Carbon-Oxygen Chemistry in Several Oort Cloud Comets

M. A. DiSanti, N. Dello Russo (CUA / NASA-GSFC), K. Magee-Sauer (Rowan U.), E. L. Gibb (NAS-NRC / NASA-GSFC), D. C. Reuter (NASA-GSFC), L.-H. Xu (U. New Brunswick), M. J. Mumma (NASA-GSFC)

12.10 Modeling the Fluorescence of the Carbon Monoxide Fourth Positive Bands in Cometary Comae

P. D. Feldman (JHU), H. A. Weaver (JHU/APL)

12.11 Updated g-factors and Methane Abundances in Oort Cloud Comets

E.L. Gibb (NAS-NRC, NASA's GSFC), M.A. DiSanti, N. Dello Russo (CUA, NASA's GSFC), M.J. Mumma (NASA's GSFC), K. Magee-Sauer (Rowan University)

12.12 How anisotropic was the gas coma of comet C/Hale-Bopp?

M.C. Festou (Toulouse Observatory, France), M. Womack (St Cloud University, St Cloud, MN, USA), D. Pinnick (St Cloud University, St Cloud, MN? USA), J. Mangum (NRAO, Tucson, AZ, USA)