Session 26. Comets I: Large, Heliocentric

Oral, Chairs: M. Sykes and D. H. Wooden, Thursday, September 4, 2003, 3:30-4:30pm, DeAnza III

26.01 Near-nucleus photometry of comets using archived NEAT data.

M. Hicks, R. Bambery, K. Lawrence (JPL/Caltech)

26.02 Comets in the Two-Micron All Sky Survey

M.V. Sykes (Univ. Arizona), P.E. Painter (Univ. Texas Austin), R.M. Cutri (Cal Tech), D.J. Tholen (Univ. Hawaii)

26.03 Disappearance of 19P/Borrelly’s Silicate Feature in 2001 Apparition Is Attributed to Increase in Grain Size

D.H. Wooden (NASA Ames Research Center), C.E. Woodward (U. Minnesota), D.E. Harker (UCSD/CASS)

26.04 From Light Scattering to Physical Properties of Cometary Dust

A.C. Levasseur-Regourd (Univ. Paris VI / Aeronomie CNRS), E. Hadamcik (Aeronomie CNRS), J.B. Renard (LPCE CNRS)

26.05 Gas transport in the innermost coma. Direct simulation kinetic model.

H.U. Keller, Yu.V. Skorov (Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie), G.N. Markelov (Atos Origin Engeneering Services B.V.)