Session 11. Planetary Rings I

Oral, Chairs: L. Spilker and C. B. Olkin, Wednesday, September 3, 2003, 1:30-3:00pm, DeAnza III

11.01 Collisional Formation of Arcs in Narrow Rings

M. C. Lewis (Trinity University), G. R. Stewart (Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics)

11.02 Influence of adhesion on collision dynamics: Applications to planetary rings near the Roche zone

N. Albers, F. Spahn (Inst. f. Physik, Universität Potsdam, Germany)

11.03 On the confinement of Neptune's ring arcs by co-orbital moonlets

B. Sicardy, S. Renner (Observatoire de Paris, LESIA)

11.04 Spatially Resolved Spectra of Saturn and Its Rings from 0.3 to 1.0 um

C. B. Olkin (Lowell Observatory), W. Calvin (University of Nevada at Reno), A. S. Bosh (Boston University and Lowell Observatory)

11.05 Saturn's Particle Disk and the A Ring Azimuthal Asymmetry

C.C. Porco, H.B. Throop (SwRI), D.C. Richardson (U. Maryland)

11.06 Thermal and Energy Balance Measurements of Saturn's C Ring

L. Spilker, S. Pilorz (JPL), C. Ferrari (CEA Saclay/Univ. Paris 7), J. Pearl (NASA GSFC), B. Wallis (JPL)

11.07 Cassini imaging observations of Jupiter's rings

H. B. Throop, C. C. Porco (SwRI), R. A West (JPL), J. A. Burns (Cornell), M. R. Showalter (ARC), P. D. Nicholson (Cornell)

11.08 Recent Hubble Observations of Jupiter's Ring System

M. R. Showalter (Stanford), J. A. Burns (Cornell), I. de Pater (U. C. Berkeley), D. P. Hamilton (U. Maryland), M. Horanyi (U. Colorado)

11.09 Jupiter's Gossamer Rings Explained.

D.P. Hamilton (U. Maryland)