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EUROPEAN LUNAR SYMPOSIUM 2014 DELEGATES’ HANDBOOK Welcome We are pleased to welcome all delegates to the 2nd European Lunar Symposium (ELS), which is taking place at the Natural History Museum in London, UK in partnership with the NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI). This pan-European lunar meeting builds upon the highly successful 1st ELS that took place in Berlin, Germany, in April 2012. The range of lunar topics covered by the abstracts submitted to this meeting demonstrates the diversity of lunar research currently being pursued in Europe. We are especially delighted to see a strong participation from PhD students and early-career researchers at this meeting. We also hope that the ELS continue to provide a platform to the European lunar researchers for networking as well as exchanging new ideas and latest results. This document provides logistical information to all attendees and presenters as well as an abstract for each contribution. We hope you have an enjoyable stay and a productive meeting! Mahesh Anand and Sara Russell (On behalf of ELS organisers) Acknowledgements We gratefully acknowledge the support and assistance provided by Kevin Murphy, Russell Rajendra, Martin Hughes and other colleagues from the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland in managing the ELS registration and providing many helpful suggestions that greatly facilitated the organization of this meeting. We thank the NASA SSERVI central for hosting the meeting website. Our special thanks to our SSERVI colleagues, Doris Daou and Ashcon Nejad, for implementing numerous updates to the website at a short notice and often at unsocialble hours! We thank our colleagues at the Natural History Museum for hosting this meeting and helping with local arrangements. Members of the Science Organising Committee are thanked for their input in putting together an exciting programme and for volunteering to chair various sessions at the ELS! Finally, we owe a huge debt of gratitude to our colleagues Romain Tartese and Jessica Barnes who acted as editors of the delegates’ booklet and looked after various aspects of ELS organisation. We couldn’t have done without them! Mahesh Anand Chair, ELS 2014, London, UK 3 Joining Instructions The second European Lunar Symposium will take place at the Natural History Museum (NHM) in London on the 15th and 16th May 2014. Oral sessions on both days will be held in the Flett Lecture Theatre, Natural History Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7. Posters will be displayed in the foyer of the Flett Lecture Theatre. Furter details of these and other logistical arrangements associated with the ELS are given below. The registration desk will be located in the foyer of the Flett Lecture Theatre which will also serve as the help-desk. All refreshments, lunches and Thu evening reception (alongside poster presentations) will also be provided in this area. All participants should register at the registration desk on Thursday (15th May) and Friday (16th May) between 9 am and 10 am. Name badge and a hard copy of delegates’ booklet will be distributed from this desk to each pre-registered delegate. Reaching the NHM The nearest London Underground station is South Kensington (see map below). Leave by the exit marked “Museums”. This will bring you to the southern end of Exhibition Road. Walk north (left from the exit) and you should shortly see the NHM in front of you. 4 Entry to the Natural History Museum There are several entrances to the Natural History Museum. For the duration of the symposium, we will use two of these, both of which are to be found on Exhibition Road, and neither of which is the main museum entrance. From 10 am until 6 pm, access to the Flett Theatre will be by means of the public entrance (Earth Galleries entrance) on Exhibition road. Between 9 am and 10 am (i.e. before official museum opening hours), entry will be via a private entrance (manned by the museum security staff and a conference personnel) just south (to your left when facing the Earth Galleries entrance) of the public entrance. This is a glass door entrance and will have a conference poster identifying it as the point of entry (this entry will close at 10 am each day, when the public entrance opens). The Natural History Museum operates a tight security policy and all visitors are required to pass through a security check each time they enter the building through public entrances. Presentations Presentations will take place in the Flett Lecture Theatre (details to reach the Flett Lecture Theatre can be found here: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/news-events/seminars/ attending/index.html). Those presenting talks are encouraged to either send their oral presentation to the ELS email account ([email protected]) prior to the meeting to ease organization or to load their presentations onto the PC in the lecture theatre during the morning registration hours on Thursday and Friday, or during the preceding refreshment/lunch break prior to their session. Presentations should be saved in Microsoft PowerPoint or PDF format. Those wishing to use their own PC and/or Mac laptops must obtain prior approval from ELS organisers and bring appropriate VGA cables and connectors. Speakers have a 15 (12 + 3) minute slot allocated in the timetable, and keynote speakers are allocated 20 (17 + 3) minutes. Posters The posters will be on display in the foyer area of the Flett Lecture Theatre. The poster session will take place on Thursday 15th May from 6 pm to 7.45 pm (along side drinks reception). Delegates are free to visit the posters at any time. Those presenting posters are encouraged to put them on display by lunchtime on Thursday (15th) and remove their posters by Friday 3.30 pm. Posters can be a maximum size of 90 cm 90 cm. Push pins and velcros will be provided. Wifi access The Flett theatre has access to the “Eduroam” wifi system. Delegates from UK institutions should be able to access this using their home log in details. Other delegates can use the “Guest” wifi and can collect a username and password from the registration desk. 5 Scientific programme Thursday, 15th May 2014 (Flett Lecture Theatre, NHM) 09.00 Registration 10.00 Welcome/Housekeeping Session 1: Geomorphology and Remote sensing – Chair: Katherine Joy 10.10 Donaldson Hanna, K. L. p.11 Characterization of pure anorthosites across the lunar surface: (Keynote) Implications for the evolution of the crust 10.30 d’Uston, C. p.13 Lunar surface compositional and mineralogic properties as seen from orbit (Chandrayaan-1, Kaguya, Smart-1, Clementine) 10.45 Wilson, J. T. p.15 On the extended distribution of Thorium near the lunar Compton- Belkovich volcanic complex 11.00 Sinitsyn, M. P. p.17 The hydrogen anomalies in KREEP terrain accordind to the results of LEND and LPNS neutron spectrometers data 11.15 Eke, V. R. p.19 The polar water ice inventory – what do we know and how? 11.30 Foing, B. H. p.21 Smart-1 impact studies from SPA, basins to Smart-1 bouncing site 11.45 Bugiolacchi, R. p.22 Trends in distribution of small craters in the Apollo 17 region 12.00 Calzada-Diaz, A. p.24 Finding launch sites of meteorites using Lunar Prospector gamma-ray spectrometer datasets 12.15 Lunch – Provided Session 2: Geophysics and Near surface environment – Chair: Neil Bowles 13.25 Greenhagen, B. T. p.26 The extreme thermal, thermophysical, and compositional nature of the (Keynote) moon revealed by the Diviner Lunar Radiometer 13.45 Barabash, S. p.28 Investigation of the plasma-surface interaction on the Russian Luna- 25/26/27 missions 14.00 De Angelis, G. p.29 Improved models of the Moon radiation environment 14.15 Dell’Agnello, S. p.31 The Moon as a Laser-ranged Test Body for General Relativity and New Gravitational Physics 14.30 Harker, G. J. A. p.32 Telerobotic exploration and radio astrophysics from the far side of the moon 14.45 Bamford, R. A. p.33 A self-consistent demonstration of how the lunar crustal magnetic anomalies produce mini-magnetospheres 15.00 Tea/coffee - Provided Session 3: Lunar samples (part 1) - Chair: Wim van Westrenen 15.25 Füri, E. p.34 Origin of lunar water and nitrogen: Constraints from Apollo 17 (Keynote) volcanic glasses 15.45 Tartèse, R. p.35 Water content and H isotopic composition of apatites in lunar KREEP basalts: Clues to indigenous lunar water 16.00 Barnes, J. J. p.37 Assessing the volatile inventory of apatites in lunar impact melt breccias 16.15 Curran, N. M. p.39 The Moon’s regolith archive in lunar meteorites 16.30 Alexander, L. p.41 Exotic lithologies at the Apollo 12 site: Examination of fines from the lunar soil samples 12023 and 12003 16.45 Pillinger, C. T. p.43 Three Oxygen isotope studies of the Moon 17.00 Elliott, T. p.44 The significance of similarities and differences in the Mg isotopic (Keynote) composition of the Earth’s mantle and lunar samples 17.30 Stofan, E. R. p.45 Human Exploration of the Solar System: NASA's Plans for Low Earth (Plenary) Orbit and Beyond 18.00 Poster session and evening drinks reception (Flett Lecture Theatre Foyer) 7 Friday, 16th May 2014 (Flett Lecture Theatre, NHM) Session 3: Lunar samples (part 2) – Chair : Romain Tartèse 09.00 Registration 10.05 Nemchin, A. A. p.46 Zircon from the Moon, Earth and Mars (Keynote) 10.25 Steenstra, E. S. p.48 Core-mantle differentiation in the Moon: constraints from metal- silicate partitioning of moderately siderophile elements in a hydrous magma ocean 10.40 Rai, N. p.50 Lunar core formation: Additional constraints from metal-silicate partitioning of germanium and the highly siderophile elements 10.55 Kleine, T.
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