Session 52. TNOs and Centaurs

Oral, Chairs: A. Barucci, G. Consolmagno, Thursday, September 8, 2005, 2:00-3:50pm, Law LG19

52.01 Sources of Centaurs and Jupiter-family Comets

M.E. Bailey (Armagh Observatory, Northern Ireland), V.V. Emel'yanenko (South Ural University, Russia), D.J. Asher (Armagh Observatory, Northern Ireland)

52.02 TNOs' taxonomy

M. Fulchignoni, M.A. Barucci (LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, France), I.N. Belskaya (Institute of Astronomy Kharkiv, Ukraine), M. Birlain (IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris, France)

52.03 Dynamical and Physical Models of Ecliptic Comets

L. Dones, D. C. Boyce, H. F. Levison (SwRI), M. J. Duncan (Queen's University)

52.04 Kuiper Belt Binaries: Masses, Colors, and a Density

J. L. Margot (Cornell University), M. E. Brown (Caltech), C. A. Trujillo (Gemini), R. Sari (Caltech), J. A. Stansberry (U of Arizona)

52.05 Albedos, Diameters (and a Density) of Kuiper Belt and Centaur Objects

J.A. Stansberry, D.P. Cruikshank (NASA Ames), W.G. Grundy (Lowell Observatory), J.L. Margot (Cornell), J.P. Emery (SETI Inst.), Y.R. Fernandez (U. Hawaii), G.H. Rieke (U. Arizona)

52.06 Near Infrared Spectra from Mauna Kea of the New Brightest Kuiper Belt Object

C. A. Trujillo (Gemini Observatory), K. M. Barkume, M. Brown, E. L. Schaller (Caltech), D. L. Rabinowitz (Yale)

52.07 Spitzer/MIPS Survey of Classical Kuiper Belt Objects and a Neptune Trojan

W.M. Grundy (Lowell Obs.), J.R. Spencer (SwRI), J.A. Stansberry (U. Arizona), M.W. Buie (Lowell Obs.), E.I. Chiang (U.C. Berkeley), D.P. Cruikshank (NASA Ames), R.L. Millis, L.H. Wasserman (Lowell Obs.)

52.08 The Relationship Between KBO Colors and Kuiper-belt Plane Inclination

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

52.09 New VLT BVRI Photometry on Trans-Neptunian Objects and Centaurs.

P. Santos-Sanz, J.L. Ortiz (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia-CSIC.), H. Boehnhardt (Max-Planck-Institute fur Solar System Research.), L. Barrera (Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación.)

52.10 Studies of Kuiper Belt Binaries

S. D. Kern, J. L. Elliot (MIT)

52.11 Near Infrared Spectroscopy of Icy Planetoids

K. M. Barkume, M. E. Brown, E. L. Schaller (Caltech)