Session 27. Comet Nuclei

Oral, Chair(s): C. Lisse and Y.R. Fernandez, Thursday, October 10, 2002, 2:00-4:00pm, Ballroom

27.01 A Numerical Impact Ejecta Model for the Deep Impact Mission

J. E. Richardson, H. J. Melosh (Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, U. Arizona)

27.02 Energy dissipation during sublimation from porous media

H. U. Keller, Yu. V. Skorov (MPAE, Germany)

27.03 The Surface Processes of Comet 19/P Borrelly

D. T. Britt (University of Tennessee)

27.04 Physical Properties of the Nucleus of Comet 28P/Neujmin 1

B.E.A. Mueller (NOAO), A.M. Heinrichs (Ohio State Univ. & NOAO), N.H. Samarasinha (NOAO)

27.05 Spin Evolution and Activity of comet 19P/Borrelly

N.H. Samarasinha, B.E.A. Mueller (NOAO)

27.06 New Dominant Periodicity in Photometry of Comet Encke

Y.R. Fernandez (UH-IfA), S.C. Lowry, P.R. Weissman (JPL), K.J. Meech (UH-IfA)

27.07 Can the Leonid meteors tell us if comets have chondrules and CAIs?

H. Campins (University of Central Florida), T. D. Swindle (LPL/University of Arizona)

27.08 Comet nuclear magnitudes and a new size distribution using archived NEAT data.

R.J. Bambery, M.D. Hicks, S.H. Pravdo, E.F. Helin, K.J. Lawrence (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/CalTech)

27.09 Formation of the Oort Cloud: Coupling Dynamical and Collisional Evolutions of Cometesimals

S. Charnoz (Equipe Gamma-Gravitation, Université Paris 7 & CEA Saclay), A. Morbidelli (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur)

27.10 Migration of comets to near-Earth orbits

S.I. Ipatov (NRC/NAS Senior Research Associate, NASA/GSFC; Inst. Appl. Math., Moscow), J.C. Mather (NASA/GSFC)

27.11 Physical Properties of Bright Comets

J. Pittichová (Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV-Slovakia)), K.J. Meech (IfA)

27.12 Dynamical Ages of Long-Period Comets

P. R. Weissman (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)