Session 21. Pluto, Charon and Triton

Oral, Chair(s): M. Buie and P. James, Wednesday, October 9, 2002, 9:20-10:10am, Ballroom

21.01 The 20 July 2002 occultation of P126 by Pluto

B. Sicardy (LESIA, Paris Obs.), F. Colas (IMCCE, Paris Obs.), T. Widemann (LESIA, Paris Obs.), W. Beisker (IOTA Europe), C. Birnbaum (LESIA, Paris Obs.), K. Brooks, A. Delsanti (ESO), A. Fienga (IMCCE, Paris Obs.), E. Gendron (LESIA, Paris Obs.), O. Hainaut (ESO), M. Kretlow (IOTA Europe), A.-M. Lagrange (Grenoble Obs.), J. Lecacheux, C. Leyrat (LESIA, Paris Obs.), A. Maury (ESO), E. Raynaud (LESIA, Paris Obs.), M. Rapaport (Bordeaux Obs.), S. Renner, F. Roques (LESIA, Paris Obs.), M. Schultheis (IMCCE, Paris Obs.)

21.02 Changes in Pluto's Atmosphere Revealed by the P126A Occultation

M.W. Buie (Lowell Obs.), J.L. Elliot (MIT), M.R. Kidger (Ast. Inst. Canary Islands), A.S. Bosh (BU), O. Saá (CTIO), R. Van Malderen, K. Uytterhoeven, G. Davignon (Katholieke U. Leuven), E.W. Dunham, C.B. Olkin, B.W. Taylor, L.H. Wasserman (Lowell Obs.), K. Clancy, M.J. Person (MIT), S.E. Levine, R.C. Stone (USNOFS), P.G. Peréz González (U. Complutense de Madrid), J.M. Pasachoff, S.P. Souza, D.R. Ticehurst (Williams College), A. Fitzsimmons (Queens U.)

21.03 Pluto's Atmosphere, Then and Now

J. L. Elliot (MIT), M. Buie (Lowell), M. J. Person, S. Qu (MIT)

21.04 Triton's atmosphere in 1989: new lab data, new profiles

L.A. Young (SwRI), G. Stark (Wellesley College), R.J. Vervack, Jr. (JHU/APL)

21.05 Adaptive Optics Imaging of the Pluto-Charon System

D. J. Tholen (Inst. for Astronomy, Univ. of Hawaii)