Session 21. Comets: Nuclei

Oral, Chairs: K. Meech and J. Sunshine, Wednesday, November 10, 2004, 10:30-12:00noon, Clark

21.01I The Basic Physical Mechanism for Disconnection Events(DEs)

J. C. Brandt (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico)

21.02 Comet C/2002 V1 (NEAT) - Evidence of solar wind effects on a comet's ion and dust tails at 0.1 AU.

G. H. Jones (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), J. S. Morrill (Naval Research Laboratory), D. Hammer (Johns Hopkins University), C. M. Lisse, T. L. Farnham (University of Maryland), G. R. Lawrence (Royal Observatory of Belgium)

21.03 Radar Observations of Comet 2P/Encke during the 2003 Apparition

J.K. Harmon, M.C. Nolan (Arecibo Observatory)

21.04 The Nucleus of Comet 2P/Encke as Observed in the Fall 2003 Apparition

Y.R. Fernandez (UH-IfA), C.M. Lisse (UMD/JHU-APL), D.G. Schleicher (Lowell Obs.), S.J. Bus (UH-IfA), M. Kassis (WMKO), J.L. Hora, L.K. Deutsch (CfA)

21.05 Chandra Observations of a Collisionally and Optically Thin Charge Exchange System – Comet 2P/Encke 2003

D.J. Christian (Queens University), C.M. Lisse (UMD/JHU-APL), K. Dennerl (MPE), S.J. Wolk (CXC), D. Bodewits (U. Groningen), M.R. Combi (UM), R. Hoekstra (U. Groningen), J.T.T. Makinen (ESA-Estech), H.A. Weaver (JHU-APL)

21.06 Estimating the Nucleus Bulk Density of Comet 81P/Wild 2

B. J. R. Davidsson (ESA/ESTEC), P. J. Gutierrez (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille)

21.07 An Estimate of the Spin Axis of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

S.R. Chesley (JPL/Caltech)

21.08 Hydrated Silicates in Comets

H. Campins (U. Central Florida), D. S. Lauretta (U. of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory)