Session 31. Asteroid Dynamics I

Oral, Chairs: W. F. Bottke, Jr. and J. S. Stuart, Friday, September 5, 2003, 10:30am-12:00noon, DeAnza I-II

31.01 The Fossilized Size Distribution of the Main Asteroid Belt

W.F. Bottke, D. Durda, D. Nesvorny (SwRI), R. Jedicke (U. Hawaii), A. Morbidelli (Obs. Nice)

31.02 Numerical Modeling of Asteroid Collisional Evolution: Recent Results

D. P. O'Brien, R. Greenberg (University of Arizona)

31.03 Evolution of NEO rotation rates due to close encounters with Earth and Venus

A. Rossi (ISTI-CNR), F. Marzari (University of Padova), D.J. Scheeres (University of Michigan)

31.04 Asteroid Spin States Produced by Thermal Torques

D. Nesvorny (Southwest Research Institute), D. Vokrouhlický (Institute of Astronomy, Charles University), W. F. Bottke (Southwest Research Institute)

31.05 Recovery of 1998 KY26: Implications for Detecting the Yarkovsky Effect

D. J. Tholen (Univ. Hawaii)

31.06 Discovery of new asteroid binaries (121) Hermione and (1509) Esclangona

W.J. Merline (SwRI), L.M. Close (U. Arizona), C. Dumas (JPL), C.R. Chapman (SwRI), F. Menard (Obs. Grenoble, France), P.M. Tamblyn (Binary Astronomy and SwRI), D.D. Durda (SwRI)

31.07 The MATROS project: Stability of Neptune Trojans and of 2001 QR322

H. Scholl (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice, France), F. Marzari, P. Tricarico (Dipartimento di Fisica, Padova, Italy)

31.08 The taxonomic abundances, albedos, sizes, impact hazards and cratering record of the near-Earth objects

J.S. Stuart (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

31.09 Assessing the Human Hazard from Impact-generated Tsunami

S. R. Chesley (JPL), S. N. Ward (Univ. Calif., Santa Cruz)