P021
Outer Planets and Beyond

Session ID#: 162998

Session Description:
This session seeks contributions for presentations detailing observational, experimental, or theoretical results pertaining to bodies in the outer solar system, including the Pluto system, the Kuiper Belt, and comets. Submissions covering interiors, surfaces, atmospheres, and comparative planetology are encouraged, as are general studies on instrumentation, field work, and future prospects.
Index Terms:

5499 General or miscellaneous [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6099 General or miscellaneous [PLANETARY SCIENCES: COMETS AND SMALL BODIES]
6299 General or miscellaneous [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]

Primary Convener:  Alexander E Thelen, USRA / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Conveners:  Alexander E Thelen, USRA / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Jennifer L Whitten, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States and Frances Rivera-Hernandez, Dartmouth College, Hanover, United States
 
Structural Behavior of the Neck of the Bilobated Kuiper Belt Object (486958) Arrokoth After the Sky Impact (1072823)
Yaeji Kim, Auburn, Alabama, UNITED STATES and Masatoshi Hirabayashi, Auburn University, Aerospace Engineering, Geosciences, Auburn, United States
 
Is True Polar Wander Recorded in Pluto's Geology? (1092186)
Oliver L White, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, United States, Kelsi N Singer, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, David A Williams, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, Jeffrey M Moore, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States and Rosaly M C Lopes, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Io’s Volcanic Outbursts from Fifty Years of Observations (1096460)
Christian Tate, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States, Alexander Hayes, Cornell University, Department of Astronomy, Ithaca, United States and Julie A Rathbun, Univ of Redlands, Physics Dept, Redlands, CA, United States
 
Scattering of Ice Components in Pluto’s Haze (1106582)
Jingyu Wang, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, Siteng Fan, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States; Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Paris, France, Chao Liu, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China, Vijay Natraj, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Leslie A Young, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States and Yuk L Yung, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Measurement of the Mass Ratio of the Binary Trojan Patroclus-Menoetius Through Stellar Occultations (1127960)
Simon Porter1, Marc W Buie2, Brian A Keeney3, Harold F Levison1 and Lucy Occultation Team, (1)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States
 
An analysis of near-simultaneous visible, infrared and microwave observations of Saturn’s clouds (1132220)
James Andrew Sinclair1, Mark Hofstadter2, Thomas Momary3, Kevin Baines2, Leigh N. Fletcher4 and Patrick GJ Irwin5, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, (5)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
The bimodal distribution of Pluto’s haze explained by the season cycles (1133301)
Sihe Chen1, Peter Gao2, Danica Adams1, Siteng Fan3, Eliot F Young4 and Yuk L Yung1, (1)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Carnegie Institution for Science, Earth & Planets Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Peking University, Beijing, China, (4)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
 
29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann: A Rosetta Stone for Amorphous Water Ice and CO -> CO2 Conversion in Centaurs and Comets? (1149417)
Carey Michael Lisse1, Jordan Steckloff2, Dina Prialnik3, Maria Womack4,5, Olga Harrington Pinto5, Gal Sarid6, Yanga R Fernandez7, Theodore S Kareta8, Charles A. Schambeau9, Nalin H Samarasinha10, Walt Harris11, Kathryn Volk12, Laura M Woodney13, Dale P Cruikshank5 and Scott A. Sandford14, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Space Exploration Sector, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States, (3)Tel Aviv University, Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv, Israel, (4)National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States, (5)University of Central Florida, Department of Physics, Orlando, FL, United States, (6)SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, United States, (7)University of Central Florida, Department of Physics, Orlando, United States, (8)Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (9)University of Central Florida, Florida Space Institute, Orlando, FL, United States, (10)PSI, Tucson, AZ, United States, (11)University of Arizona, Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, United States, (12)University of Arizona, Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ, United States, (13)Cal State Univ - San Bernardino, Department of Physics, San Bernardino, United States, (14)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
 
Simulation Study for Precise Orbit Determination of a Callisto Orbiter and Geodetic Parameter Recovery (1164300)
William Desprats1, Daniel Arnold1, Stefano Bertone2, Barbara Jenny1, Michel F. Blanc3, Adrian Jaeggi1, Lei Li4, Mingtao Li4 and Olivier Witasse5, (1)University of Bern, Astronomical Institute, Bern, Switzerland, (2)CRESST II / UMBC / NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (3)Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France, (4)NSSC National Space Science Center, CAS, Beijing, China, (5)ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
 
The Spherical Multi-Lacunarity of the Pit and Dome Craters of Jupiter’s Moons Ganymede and Callisto (1166359)
Andrew J Dombard1, Martina Caussi1, Paul Schenk2, Donald G Korycansky3, Jeffery Moore4 and Oliver L White5, (1)University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, (2)Lunar and Planetary Institute, USRA, Houston, TX, United States, (3)University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (5)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
 
A New Scenario for Pit and Dome Crater Formation on Jupiter’s Moons Ganymede and Callisto (1167396)
Martina Caussi1, Andrew J Dombard1, Donald G Korycansky2, Jeffrey M Moore3, Paul Schenk4 and Oliver L White5, (1)University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, (2)University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (4)Lunar and Planetary Institute, USRA, Houston, TX, United States, (5)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, United States
 
Modeling Far Ultraviolet Hydrocarbon Emissions in Limb Observations by New Horizons Alice at Pluto (1170886)
Victoir Veibell, Computational Physics Inc. Springfield, Springfield, VA, United States and J. Scott Evans, Computational Physics, Inc., Springfield, VA, United States
 
Spatial Distribution and Secular Evolution of Pluto’s Ices as Seen from the Ground and Space (1171853)
Annika Gustafsson, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Silvia Protopapa, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, William M Grundy, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Bryan Holler, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States, Leslie A Young, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States and Catherine Olkin, Muon Space, Mountain View, United States
 
Searching for New Horizons Targets in the Distant Kuiper Belt (1176589)
Anne Verbiscer1, Simon Porter2, Wesley C. Fraser3, J.J. Kavelaars4, Susan Benecchi5, David Gerdes6, Hsing-Wen Lin7, Marc W Buie8, Fumi Yoshida9, Takashi Ito10, John R Spencer8, S Alan Stern11, Kevin Napier6, Lowell Peltier12 and Tsuyoshi Terai13, (1)University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre, National Research Council, Victoria, BC, Canada, (4)National Research Council of Canada, NRC-Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics, Victoria, BC, Canada, (5)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (6)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, (7)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (8)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Yahata, Japan, (10)National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, (11)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Dept Space Studies, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, (13)National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Hilo, Japan
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