7 Space Missions, Astrometry, and Observables

Oral, Chaired by P.D. Nicholson, Tuesday, May 6, 2003, 8:30-10:50am

7.01 The GRACE Mission: Status and Early Results

B. D. Tapley (The University of Texas at Austin, Center of Space Research), C. Reigber (GeoForschunzgsZentrumn, Potsdam), J. C. Ries (The University of Texas at Austin, Center of Space Research)

7.02 The Yale/San Juan Southern Proper Motion Catalog 3.0

T. M. Girard, D. I. Dinescu, W. F. van Altena (Yale Univ.), I. Platais (Johns Hopkins), C. E. Lopez (Univ. de San Juan, Argentina), D. G. Monet (USNO - Flagstaff)

7.03 A Comparison of Large All-Sky Catalogs to the Sky

D. J. Mink, W. R. Brown, M. J. Kurtz (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)

7.04 Schlesinger's Telescope: A Brief History of the Yale 26-inch Refractor

W. F. van Altena, E. D. Hoffleit (Yale University)

7.05 New Precession Formulas

T. Fukushima (NAOJ)

7.06 A Nonlinear Model for the Relative Motion of Satellites

K.T. Alfriend, H. Yan (Texas A&M U.)

7.07 The Mass Ratio of Charon to Pluto from Hubble Space Telescope Astrometry with the Fine Guidance Sensors

C. B. Olkin, L. H. Wasserman, O. G. Franz (Lowell Observatory)