IAU Colloquium 168
Cometary Nuclei in Space and Time
Program
May 18-22, 1998
Nanjing, China
Semi-final Oral Program
Monday 18 May
Morning Session - General, size of comets
- Ceremonials and welcome talks
- IT Cochran Anita: Dr. Harlan Smith and International Science
- IT Li Qibin: Astronomy in China and its Future
- IT Rickman Hans: (The Size Distribution of Comets)
Afternoon Session - Basic physical properties, begin chemistry
- IT Lamy Philippe: Physical properties of cometary nuclei from high spatial resolution observations with HST and ISO
- IT Larson Stephen M.: Inferring the Nucleus Spin State from Groundbased Observations
- IT Jorda Laurent: Modeling the Rotation of Comet Nuclei
- CT Fernández Yanga: Survey of the Physical Properties of Comet Nuclei
- CT Samarasinha Nalin: Cometary Spin States, Their Evolution, and the Implications
- IT Huebner Walter: Determination of Nucleus Properties from Coma Properties
Evening
Tuesday 19 May
Morning Session - Chemistry & lab studies
- IT Rauer Heike: Deducing the nucleus composition from remote coma observations?
- IT Eberhardt Peter: Composition of comets: the in situ view
- CT Mao Ruiqing: The CO (J=1-0) Observations of Comet Hale-Bopp
- IT Bar-Nun Akiva: Laboratory Studies of Formation of Cometary Nuclei
- IT Colangeli Luigi: Laboratory studies on organic and silicate components of comets
Afternoon Session - Missions
- IT Schwehm Gerhard: The International Rosetta Mission -Orbiter Science
- IT Rosenbauer Helmut: Scientific Accomplishments Expected from the Rosetta Lander
- CT Bibring Jean-Pierre: The In-situ Analysis of Wirtanen Nucleus by the Rosetta Lander Payload
- IT Weissman Paul R.: Comet Missions in NASA's New Millennium Program
- CT Palumbo Pasquale: The GIADA experiment for Rosetta mission to comet 46P/Wirtanen: performances and capabilities
- IT Schulz Rita: Review of Target Comets for Space Missions
Evening Session - Chinese Cometary Astronomy & Poster Session
- CT Chen DaoHan: A Rotating Stratified Fluid Model of the Comet's
Collision with Jupiter
- CT Wu Guang-jie: Some Phenomena Near the Nucleus of Comet Hale-Bopp
- CT Tao Jun: The observations of Comet Hale-Bopp's jets and shells
and some preliminary results
- CT Yang Benyou: Outbursts of Comet Hale-Bopp
- CT Zhang Peiyu: Observations of Comets in Ancient China
- CT Ma Yuehua: Explosion of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting on Jupiter
Wednesday 20 May
All day
Thursday 21 May
Morning Session - Relation to TNOs, Near-surface Models
- IT Jewitt David: (Comets and Trans-Neptunian Objects)
- IT Levison Harold: (Orbital History from KB and Oort Cloud)
- CT Keller H. U.: ISO Observations of Thermal Emission from Kuiper Belt Objects
- CT Maslennikov K. L.: Observations of Kuiper Belt Objects with BTA-6m Telescope: An Approach to Chemistry of Protocomets
- IT Crifo Jean-Francois: Modeling the Surface Activity of Comets
- IT Capria Maria-Theresa: Nucleus thermal and differentiation models
Afternoon Session - Meteors, Dust, etc.
- IT Williams Iwan: Meteor Showers and their relationship to Cometary nuclei
- IT Fomenkova Marina N.: Nuclei and Dust of Comets
- IT Lee Typhoon: X-wind, Refractory IDPs, and Cometary Nuclei
- CT Li Aigen: Interstellar dust in comets: from Halley to Borrelly
to beta Pictoris to Hale-Bopp
- CT Green Jacklyn: The Role of Fatigue Fracture and Erosion in the
Production of Icy Cometary Grains
Evening Session - Leonids Workshop (org. I. Williams) & Poster Session
- IT Jenniskens Peter: What a Leonid Storm Might Tell Us About the Nucleus of Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle
- CT Zhang He-qi: Plan for Monitoring 1998 Leonid Shower in China
- CT He You-wen: (Meteor Maintenance of Earth's Ionosphere)
Friday 22 May
Morning Session - Origin & Evolution - Chemical
- IT Ehrenfreund Pascale: From the Interstellar Medium to Comets: an ISO view
- IT Yamamoto Tetsuo: Evolution of Temperature, Chemical Composition, and Mechanical Properties of Cometary Nuclei
- CT Delsemme Armand: The Deuterium Enrichment Observed in Recent Comets is Consistent with the Cometary Origin of Seawater
- CT Cremonese Gabriele: The sodium sources working in the cometary nuclei
Afternoon Session - I. Structure and origin
- IT Weidenschilling Stuart J.: Accretion of Comet Nuclei in the Solar
Nebula: Implications for Structure
- CT Weissman Paul R.: The Primordial Rubble Pile Model of the Cometary
Nucleus
- CT Watanabe J.: Fragments of Split Nuclei:Implication for Aggregate of
Planetesimals
Afternoon Session - II. Overview and Prospects, Closing
- CT Morrison David: When Comet Go Bad: The Hazard of Comet Impacts
- IT Greenberg J. Mayo: Overview of Meeting
Evening
Poster Sessions
See separate page with link below for the program of posters.
Please note that Contributed Talks, CT in the above listing, are
limited strictly to 10 minutes of presentation with up to 5 minutes
after the talk available for discussion. Note also that the above
program is semi-final and a few minor changes may still occur.
Generally the invited talks are scheduled for 30 minutes with up
to 15 minutes available for discussion, although a couple are
intended to be shorter than 30 minutes. (the authors know which
these are).
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