DPS 2005 Abstracts online
Abstracts for the Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS) meeting in Cambridge, England in early September are now online. DPS abstracts are much shorter than LPSC abstracts (which are practically mini-papers) and are notorious for saying everything and nothing. However, there are some interesting talks and posters described here, that I would view, if I were going... For vanity purposes, the abstracts I am a co-author, and thus will be very disappointed if you don't go to if you are attending the conference (I'm not going, but I'll know, trust me, I'll know).
- INMS Titan Observations by Waite et al.
- * Geological Features and Terrains on Enceladus as seen by Cassini ISS by Helfenstein et al.
- * Mapping and Monitoring the Surface of Titan by McEwen et al.
- * The Brightest Spot on Titan by Barnes et al.
- Correlating hotspots on Io with surface features using Galileo eclipse images by Radebaugh et al.
- Gravity Science In The Saturnian System: The Masses of Phoebe, Iapetus, Dione, and Enceladus by Rappaport et al.
- Cassini VIMS compositional mapping of Surfaces in the Saturn System and the role of water, cyanide compounds and carbon dioxide by Clark et al.
- Aromatic Hydrocarbons on Iapetus and Phoebe: Cassini-VIMS Detections by Cruikshank et al.
- Unusual Spectral Behavior of the Saturnian Satellites at Long Thermal Wavelengths by Pearl et al.
- A Geophysical Study Of Iapetus: The Need For And Consequences Of Al26 by Castillo et al.
- The geology of Saturn's satellite Dione observed by Cassini's ISS camera by Wagner et al.
- Full-disk observations of the Saturn's icy moons by Cassini/VIMS by Filacchione et al.
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Taken as a whole, these abstracts describe a system that is much stranger and difficult to interpret than expected.
Keep a close eye on future gravity studies, if any of the odd-ball claims I have been making are correct, the closest pass to Enceladus should reveal gravity anomalies that are impossible to model within the density range of expected surface materials (water ice and hydrocarbons).
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