Session 2. Asteroids I

Oral, Chair(s): R.P. Binzel and H. Scholl, Monday, October 7, 2002, 9:30-11:00am, Ballroom

2.01 Discovery of a Loosely-bound Companion to Main-belt Asteroid (3749) Balam

W.J. Merline (SwRI), L.M. Close, N. Siegler (U. Arizona), C. Dumas (JPL), C.R. Chapman (SwRI), F. Rigaut (Gemini Observatory), F. Menard (Obs. Grenoble), W.M. Owen (JPL), D.C. Slater, D.D. Durda (SwRI)

2.02 A New Estimate of the Population of Small NEAs

A. W. Harris (Space Science Institute)

2.03 Albedo Bias in the Observed NEA Population

J.S. Stuart, R.P. Binzel (MIT)

2.04 The Evolution of the Main belt and NEA size Distributions

D. P. O'Brien, R. Greenberg (University of Arizona)

2.05 A High-Altitude Search for Vulcanoids: Progress Report

D. D. Durda, S. A. Stern, D. C. Terrell (SwRI), S. J. Weidenschilling (PSI)

2.06 Obliquity Alignment and Spin Angular Momentum Clustering in the Koronis Family

S. M. Slivan, R. P. Binzel (MIT), M. Kaasalainen (U. Helsinki)

2.07 Results of the MATROS program for Jupiter and Mars Trojans

H. Scholl (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice, France), P. Tricarico, F. Marzari (Dept. of Physics, Padova, Italy), P. Michel (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice, France)

2.08 The recent breakup of an asteroid in the main belt region

D. Nesvorny, W.F. Bottke, L. Dones, H.F. Levison (Soutwest Research Institute)

2.09 Recovery and Follow-Up of Short-Arc Transneptunian Objects Using Statistical Ranging

E. Bowell, B. W. Koehn (Lowell Observatory), J. Virtanen, K. Muinonen, M. Gravnik (University of Helsinki Observatory, Finland), G. Tancredi (Dept. Astronomia-Fac. Ciencias, Montevideo, Uruguay)