Vol 45, No 9 45th Annual Meeting Division for Planetary Sciences Denver, Colorado | 6-11 October 2013 Page 1 45th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) 6-11 October 2013 Denver, Colorado 100 Sessions - Page 2 200 Sessions - Page 50 300 Sessions - Page 107 400 Sessions - Page 153 500 Sessions - Page 203 Author Index - Page 243 Page 1 100 – Education University, Columbus, OH, United States. Brigham Young University has a relatively large undergraduate physics program with 300 to 360 physics majors. Each 100.01 – Scientists: Get Involved in Planetary Science Education and Public Outreach! Here’s How! of these students is required to be engaged in a research group and to produce a senior thesis before graduating. For the Sanlyn Buxner1, Heather Dalton2, Stephanie Shipp2, Emily CoBabe-Ammann3, Daniella Scalice4, Lora Bleacher5, Alice astronomy professors, this means that each of us is mentoring at least 4-6 undergraduate students at any given time. For Wessen6 the past few years I have been searching for meaningful research projects that make use of our telescope resources and 1. Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States. 2. Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States. are exciting for both myself and my students. We first started following up Kepler Objects of Interest with our 0.9 meter 3. UCAR Community Programs, Boulder, CO, United States. 4. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United telescope, but quickly realized that most of the transits we could observe were better analyzed with Kepler data and were States. 5. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States. 6. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, false positive objects. So now we have joined a team that is searching for transiting planets, and my students are using CA, United States. our 16’ telescope to do ground based follow-up on the hundreds of possible transiting planet candidates produced by this The Planetary Science Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) Forum is a team of educators, scientists, and outreach survey. In this presentation I will describe our current telescopes, the observational setup, and how we use our telescopes professionals funded by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) that supports SMD scientists currently involved to search for transiting planets. I’ll describe some of the software the students have written. I’ll also explain how to use in E/PO - or interested in becoming involved in E/PO efforts – to find ways to do so through a variety of avenues. There the NASA Exoplanet Archive to gather data on known transiting planets and Kepler Objects of Interests. These databases are many current and future opportunities and resources for scientists to become engaged in E/PO. The Forum provides are useful for determining the observational limits of your small telescopes and teaching your students how to reduce and tools for responding to NASA SMD E/PO funding opportunities (webinars and online proposal guides), a one-page report data on transiting planets. Once that is in place, you are potentially ready to join existing transiting planet missions Tips and Tricks guide for scientists to engage in education and public outreach, and a sampler of activities organized by doing ground-based follow-up. I will explain how easy it can be to implement this type of research at any high school, by thematic topic and NASA’s Big Questions in planetary science. Scientists can also locate resources for interacting college, or university with a small telescope and CCD camera. with diverse audiences through a number of online clearinghouses, including: NASA Wavelength, a digital collection of peer-reviewed Earth and space science resources for educators of all levels (http://nasawavelength.org); the Year of the 101 – Asteroids 1: NEOs- Visitors and Targets Solar System website (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/yss), a presentation of thematic resources that includes background information, missions, the latest in planetary science news, and educational products, for use in the classroom and out, 101.01 – Results From Ground-based Observations of Asteroid 2012 DA14 During Its Close-Approach to the Earth for teaching about the solar system organized by topic – volcanism, ice, astrobiology, etc.; and EarthSpace (http://www. on February 15th, 2013 lpi.usra.edu/earthspace), a community website where faculty can find and share resources and information about teaching Julia de Leon1, Noemí Pinilla-Alonso3, José Luis Ortiz2, Antonio Cabrera-Lavers4, Alvaro Alvarez-Candal5, 2, Nicolás Earth and space sciences in the undergraduate classroom, including class materials, news, funding opportunities, and the Morales2, Rene Duffard2, Pablo Santos-Sanz2, Javier Licandro6, 7, A. Pérez-Romero4, Vania Lorenzi8, Stefan Cikota9 latest education research. Also recently developed, the NASA SMD Scientist Speaker’s Bureau (http://www.lpi.usra.edu/ 1. Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Spain. 2. Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Granada, Granada, Spain. 3. education/speaker) offers an online portal to connect scientists interested in getting involved in E/PO projects – giving Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States. 4. GTC Project, La public talks, classroom visits, and virtual connections – with audiences. Learn more about the opportunities to become Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. 5. Observatório Nacional, Río de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 6. Instituto de Astrofísica de involved in E/PO and to share your science with students, educators, and the general public at http://smdepo.org. Canarias, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. 7. Departamento de Astrofísica de La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. 8. Fundación Galileo Galilei - INAF, Breña Baja, St. Cruz de Tenerife, Spain. 9. Physics Department, University of Split, 100.02 – CIOC_ISON: Pro-Am Collaboration for Support of NASA Comet ISON Observing Campaign (CIOC) Split, Croatia. th via Social Media Near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 (hereafter DA14) made its closest approach to the Earth on February 15 , 2013, when Padma A. Yanamandra-Fisher1 it passed at a distance of 27,700 km from the Earth’s surface. It was the first time an asteroid of moderate size (~ 45 m 1. Space Science Institute, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, United States. estimated before the approach) was predicted to come that close to the Earth becoming bright enough to permit a detailed Contributing teams: CIOC_ISON, NASA_CIOC study from ground-based telescopes. With the aim of collecting the most varied and useful information within our grasp, From the initial discovery of C/2012 S1 (ISON) by Russian amateur astronomers in September 2012 to present day, we designed and carried out an observational campaign that involved five ground-based telescopes with very different amateur astronomers provide valuable resources of global coverage, data and legacy knowledge to the professional characteristics. Visible colors and spectra were obtained from the 10.4m Gran Telescopio Canarias and the 2.2m CAHA community. C/ISON promises to be the rare and brightest of comets if predictions of its evolution are correct. NASA has telescope; near-infrared colors were obtained from the 3.6m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo; time-series photometry were requested a small group of cometary scientists to facilitate, support and coordinate the observations of this potential bright obtained using the f/3 0.77m telescope in La Hita Observatory and the f/8 1.5m telescope in Sierra Nevada Observatory comet. The Comet ISON Observing Campaign (CIOC) goals (www.isoncampaign.org) are: (i) a detailed characterization (all telescopes placed in Spain). The analysis of the data showed that this NEA can be classified as an L-type, with an of a subset of comets (sun grazers) that are usually difficult to identify and study in the few hours before their demise; estimated geometric albedo in the visible pv= 0.44 ± 0.20. L-type asteroids are uncommon, and most of them display and (ii) facilitate collaborations between various investigators for the best science possible. One of the tangible products unusual characteristics, which indicate that their surfaces could be covered by a mixture of high- and low-albedo particles is the creation of CIOC_ISON, a professional – amateur astronomer collaboration network established on Facebook, similar to what is observed for some carbonaceous chondrites (CV3 and CO3). The object is very elongated, and its with members from the scientific, amateur, science outreach/education, public from around the globe (www.facebook. equivalent diameter is 18 m. This is less than a half of the a priori estimation, which suggests that close approaches with com/groups/482774205113931/). Members, by invitation or request, provide the details of their equipment, location objects such as DA14 are several times more frequent than initially estimated before this work (once every 40 years). and observations and post their observations to both share and provide a forum for interactive discussions. Guidelines Using photometric time series pre- and post-encounter, we show that the object probably experienced a spin-up due to the for observations and their logs are provided and updated as deemed necessary by the scientists for useful data. The long gravitational forces of the Earth decreasing the rotational period from 9.8 ± 0.1 hr. to 8.95 ± 0.08 hr. lead time between initial discovery of C/ISON in September 2012 and its perihelion in November 2013 provides a rare opportunity for the scientific and amateur astronomer communities to study a sungrazer comet on its initial (and possibly) 101.02 – Goldstone Radar Images of Near-Earth Asteroid 2012 DA14 only passage through the inner solar system. These collaborations, once an occasional connection, are now becoming Lance A. Benner1, Marina Brozovic1, Jon D. Giorgini1, Joseph S. Jao1, Clement G. Lee1, Michael W. Busch2, Martin A. essential and necessary, changing the paradigm of research. Unlike Citizen Science, these interactive and collaborative Slade1 activities are the equivalent of Inverse Citizen Science, with the scientific community relying on the amateur astronomer 1.