Session 23. Planetary Bookends I

Oral, Chairs: W. B. McKinnon and W. M. Grundy, Thursday, September 4, 2003, 10:30am-12:00noon, DeAnza I-II

23.01 Pluto's Atmospheric Figure from the P131.1 Stellar Occultation

M. J. Person, J. L. Elliot, K. B. Clancy, S. D. Kern, C. V. Salyk (MIT), D. J. Tholen (U. of Hawaii), J. M. Pasachoff, B. A. Babcock, S. P. Souza, D. R. Ticehurst (Williams College), D. Hall, L. C. Roberts Jr. (Boeing), A. S. Bosh (BU & Lowell), M. W. Buie, E. W. Dunham, C. B. Olkin, B. Taylor (Lowell), S. E. Levine (USNO), S. S. Eikenberry, D.-S. Moon (Cornell), D. J. Osip (LCO)

23.02 Near-infrared spectral monitoring of Pluto/Charon with IRTF/SpeX

W.M. Grundy, M.W. Buie, J.R. Spencer (Lowell Observatory), L.A. Young, E.F. Young (Southwest Research Institute)

23.03 Polar Wander on Triton Due to Volatile Migration

D. Rubincam (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

23.04 Two-Way Atmospheric Radio Occultation: a Powerful New Technique For Probing Tenuous Planetary Atmospheres

T.R. Spilker, N.J. Rappaport, E.D. Archer (JPL/Caltech)

23.05 Nereid's Story

A. R. Dobrovolskis (Lick Observatory, U. C. Santa Cruz)

23.06 Pluto and Charon's Visible Spectrum (3500-9000~Å)

J. C. Cook (Arizona State Univeristy), S. Wyckoff (Arizona State University)

23.07 Mercury: Near Infrared Spectroscopy with SpeX

A. L. Sprague (Lunar and Planetary Laboratory), J. P. Emery (NASA ARC), J. Warell (Lunar and Planetary Laboratory), A. Long (Susquehanna University), J. Rayner (Univ. of Hawaii, IRTF), M. Cushing (Univ. of Hawaii)

23.08 Space Weathering at Mercury: Solar Energetic Particles and Pickup Ion Trajectories

P. L. Koehn, T. H. Zurbuchen (University of Michigan), K. Kabin (University of Alberta)

23.09 Mercury's Sodium Exosphere: Magnetospheric Ion recycling

F. Leblanc (Service d'Aeronomie du CNRS), D. Delcourt (Centre d'Etude des Environnements Terrestre et Planetaires), R.E. Johnson, M. Liu (University of Virginia)