Session 3. Kuiper Belt I: Observations

Oral, Chairs: B. Gladman and S. Sheppard, Monday, November 8, 2004, 10:30am-12:noon, Clark

3.01 A Sedna update: source, size, spectrum, surface, spin, satellite

M.E. Brown (Caltech), C.A. Trujillo (Gemini Observatory), D. Rabinowitz (Yale), J. Stansberry (University of Arizona), F. Bertoldi (MPIfR), C.D. Koresko (JPL)

3.02 The Wavelength Dependence of TNO and Centaur Phase Curves

D. Rabinowitz, S. Tourtellotte (Yale University), B. Schaefer (Louisiana State University)

3.03 The photometric behavior of 20000 Varuna at very small solar phase angles.

M. D. Hicks, B. J. Buratti, D. P. Simonelli (JPL/Caltech)

3.04 Chiron's Outburst Behavior

J.M. Bauer (Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)), B. Buratti (JPL), K.J. Meech (Institute for Astronomy, Univ. of Hawaii (UHIfA)), M.D. Hicks (JPL), Y. R. Fernandez, J. Bedient (UHIfA)

3.05 First Results of the CFHLS Kuiper Belt Survey

R.L. Allen, B. Gladman (UBC), J.J. Kavelaars (HIA/NRC), J. Parker (SWRI), J-M. Petit (Obs. Besnacon)

3.06 New Results from the Deep Ecliptic Survey: Dynamical Classification, the Kuiper-Belt Plane, and the Core Population

J. L. Elliot, S. D. Kern, K. B. Clancy, A. A. S. Gulbis (MIT), R. L. Millis, M. W. Buie, L. H. Wasserman (Lowell), E. I. Chiang (U. C. Berkeley), A. B. Jordan (U. of Colorado), D. E. Trilling (U. of Arizona), K. J. Meech (IfA/UH)

3.07 The Color of the Kuiper-Belt Core

A. A. S. Gulbis, J. L. Elliot, J. F. Kane (MIT)

3.08 Colors of Kuiper Belt Objects and Centaurs

W. Romanishin (U. of Oklahoma), S. C. Tegler (Northern Arizona Univ.), G. J. Consolmagno (Vatican Observatory)

3.09 The Kuiper Belt size distribution constrained by Stellar Occultations

F. Roques, A. Doressoundiram (Observatoire de Paris, France), V. Dhillon (University of Sheffield, UK), T. Marsh (University of Warwick UK), JJ Kavellars, S. Bickerton (National Research council, Victoria, Ca), N. Peixinho (Observatoire de Paris, France), A. Fitzsimmons (Queens University Belfast Northern, Ireland), F. Colas, J. Lecacheux, S. Pau (Observatoire de Paris, France), I. Belskaya (Kharkiv university Ukraine), O. Mousis (University of Bern, Switzerland)