40th Annual Meeting of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences 10-15 October 2008 - Ithaca, New York, Statler Hotel, 130 Statler Drive, Ithaca, NY 14853 Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 10 October 11 October 12 October 13 October 14 October 15 October 8:00 Registration Park Atrium, Statler Hotel 8 am-4 pm Registration 8 am-noon 8:30- 1 Exoplanets I 20 Titan: Upper Atmosphere 50 Outer Planets II 59 Galilean Satellites 10:00 Statler Auditorium Statler Auditorium Statler Auditorium Statler Auditorium 2 Comets I 21 Planetary Rings: Theory 51 Mercury 60 Asteroid Composition DPS Members Meeting Statler Ballroom Statler Ballroom Statler Ballroom Statler Ballroom Statler Auditorium 3 Mars: Surface 22 MB Asteroids & Trojans 52 Asteroid Discovery & Orbits Uris Hall Uris Hall Uris Hall 10:00- Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break 10:30 10:30- 4 Exoplanets II 23 Titan: Lower Atmosphere 34 Titan: Subsurface 53 Outer Planets III 61 Saturnian Satellites 12:00 Statler Auditorium Statler Auditorium Statler Auditorium Statler Auditorium Statler Auditorium 5 Comets II 24 Planetary Rings: Physical 35 Outer Planets I 54 Laboratory Research 62 Venus Statler Ballroom Statler Ballroom Statler Ballroom Statler Ballroom Statler Ballroom 6 Mars: Atmosphere 25 Near Earth Asteroids 36 Icy Dwarf Planets 55 Asteroid Evolution Uris Hall Uris Hall Uris Hall Uris Hall 12:00- Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch 1:30 Meet the IAU NSF Town Hall DPS Women Green Conferencing Yale/Princeton Rooms Yale/Princeton Rooms Yale/Princeton Rooms Yale/Princeton Rooms 1:30- 7 Special Session 37 Special Session 56 Special Session 2:30 Dynamical Classification 26 Prize Lectures Exoplanets Mission Highlights of Planetary Bodies Kuiper Prize: Statler Auditorium Statler Auditorium All talks in any given session Statler Auditorium Michael F. A'Hearn 38 Trans-Neptunian Objects are of the same length. 2:30- 8 Enceladus Masursky Award: and Centaurs Contributed talks are 10 3:30 Statler Auditorium Jon D. Giorgini Uris Hall minutes, special session 9 Moon Statler Auditorium talks are 20 minutes. Uris Hall 2-3:30 pm 3:30- Poster Sessions 39 Mercury Coffee Break Posters are displayed in Registration 6:00 10 History 27 Asteroids: Discovery 40 Venus 57 Special Session Barton Hall Saturday- Opens 11 Extrasolar Planets 28 Asteroids: Physical 41 Jovian Planets: Atm. New Directions in Lunar Tuesday and highlighted in Park Atrium, 12 Solar System Origin 29 Planetary Rings: Physical 42 Jovian Planets: Chem. Science three evening sessions. Statler Hotel 13 Moon 30 Planetary Rings: Theory 43 Jovian Planets: Magn. Statler Auditorium Round-robin tours begin 3:30-8 pm 14 Mars: Atmosphere 31 Titan 44 Galilean Satellites 4-6 pm at 4 pm. 15 Mars: Surface 32 Missions & Instruments 45 Saturnian Satellites 58 Solar System Origin, Planet Opening 16 Comets 33 Meteoroids & Meteorites 46 Other Satellite Systems and Satellite Formation For a complete workshop Reception 17 Enceladus 47 Trans-Neptunian Objects Uris Hall schedule, see next page. Baum 18 Education 48 Icy Dwarf Planets 4-6 pm Atrium in 19 Other Dynamics 49 Laboratory Research Duffield Hall Public Concert Public Lecture DPS Banquet NASA Night 6-10 pm Cornell Bailey Hall Cornell Bailey Hall Museum of the Earth Statler Auditorium 8-10 pm 7:30-9:30 pm 6:30-10:30 pm 7:30-9:30 pm 40th DPS Meeting - Workshop Schedule FIRST LAST DAY DATE TIME TITLE ROOM NAME NAME EMAIL STATUS BRIEF DESRIPTION 10-Oct to Speakers please submit your talks and check Fri-Wed 15-Oct 7am-7pm Speaker Ready Room Dartmouth Hunter Gray [email protected] Open to all readiness with our AV experts. Observing with the James [email protected], Observing Planets (Wherever They May Be) with Fri 10-Oct 9am-5pm Webb Space Telescope Amphitheatre Jonathan Lunine [email protected] Open to all the James Webb Space Telescope. Fri 10-Oct 9am-5pm Icarus Editors Harvard Phil Nicholson [email protected] Invitation only Icarus Editors meeting Open to all, Fri 10-Oct 9am-5pm NASA Proposal Workshop Taylor Curt Niebur [email protected] Registration required How to write a NASA research proposal. Planetary System Nomen- Matters that need to be clarified before IAU 2009 Fri 10-Oct 10am-6pm clature Pennsylvania Rita Schulz [email protected] Invitation only General Assembly. Small Bodies Advisory Review of inaugural SBAG meeting and request Fri 10-Oct 2:30-4:00pm Group Rowe Faith Vilas [email protected] Open to all for community input. Planetary System Nomen- Matters that need to be clarified before IAU 2009 Sat 11-Oct 10am-1pm clature Pennsylvania Rita Schulz [email protected] Invitation only General Assembly. Officers will promote participation in the activities Sat 11-Oct 12-1:30pm Meet the IAU Yale-Princeton Regis Courtin [email protected] Open to all of the IAU. Sat 11-Oct 3pm-10pm DPS Committee Rowe Rick Binzel [email protected] Invitation only Annual DPS Conference Committee meeting. NASA is considering developing new RPS's that Small Radioisotope Power could enhance or enable smaller missions. Sat 11-Oct 5:00-6:30pm Systems Pennsylvania Jackie Green [email protected] Open to all Community input solicited. 11-Oct to Sat-Wed 15-Oct 7am-9pm Press Room Columbia Sanjay Limaye [email protected] Registration required For members of the Press. 11-Oct to Breakfast with the DPS For students: meet the DPS chair and learn the Sat-Wed 15-Oct 7am-9am Chair Taylor B Rick Binzel [email protected] Registration required ropes! 11-Oct to 7:30am- Breakfast for Session Oral session chairs get organized: AV, schedule, Sat-Wed 15-Oct 8:30am Chairs Taylor A Jean-Luc Margot [email protected] Invitation only program changes. 11-Oct to Sat-Wed 15-Oct 12-1:30pm Press Briefings Amphitheatre Sanjay Limaye [email protected] Invitation only For members of the Press. Issues of importance to the National Science Sun 12-Oct 12-1:30pm NSF Town Hall Yale-Princeton Vernon Pankonin [email protected] Open to all Foundation, and you. Planetary Data System Rings Node Advisory Sun 12-Oct 12-1:30pm PDS Ring Node Harvard Mitch Gordon [email protected] Invitation only Council Venus Science and Sun 12-Oct 12-1:30pm Technology Definition Pennsylvania Mark Bullock [email protected] Open to all Venus Science and Technology Definition Team Frost-Transport Models: Discussion of physical processes in frost transport Sun 12-Oct 5pm-6:30pm Pluto & Triton Pennsylvania John Stansberry [email protected] Open to all models. Also: observables and lab data. The Next Decadal Study Soliciting ideas and suggestions for next National Sun 12-Oct 5pm-6:30pm for Planetary Science Auditorium Joe Veverka [email protected] Open to all Research Council Decadal Study. Sun 12-Oct 6pm-9pm Icarus Board Meeting Harvard Phil Nicholson [email protected] Invitation only Icarus Editors meeting "Gender-Based Differences in Communication," Simon- Open to all, featuring guest speaker Prof. Mary Munter from Mon 13-Oct 12-1:30pm DPS Women's Lunch Yale-Princeton Amy Miller [email protected] Registration Required Dartmouth. Mon 13-Oct 5pm-6:30pm Observing with SOFIA Taylor A/B Dana Backman [email protected] Open to all Informational How can we, the DPS, effectively "green" our Green Conferencing at the [email protected], meetings? Come and help us form a plan for Tues 14-Oct 12-1:30pm DPS - Open Discussion Yale-Princeton Beth Clark [email protected] Open to all future meetings. Discussion of last year's observations of Jupiter, International Outer Planet Sanchez- Saturn, Uranus and Neptune atmospheres. Also: Tues 14-Oct 12-2:30pm Watch Pennsylvania Agustin Lavega [email protected] Open to all future plans. Wed 15-Oct 12-5pm DPS Committee Pennsylvania Jonathan Lunine [email protected] Invitation only Secret agenda. Improving the College Introductory Astronomy 16-Oct to Astronomy Educator Open to all, Survey Course for Non-Science Majors Through Thurs-Fri 17-Oct 9am-5pm Workshop Ithaca College Luke Keller [email protected] Registration required Active Learning. .