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AAS DPS 2008 Presentations
The 40th annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society was held Friday October 10 to Wednesday October 15, 2008 at the Statler Hotel at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
Several EPOXI scientists presented preliminary results from the EPOCh observations made during the spring and summer of 2008.
There were several sessions with interesting material related to EPOXI (exoplanet and comet results). Below are links to some of the talks by EPOXI scientists:
- Exoplanets I
- Exoplanets II
- Exoplanets special
- Extrasolar Planets and Systems (Posters)
- Drake Deming: The EPOXI/EPOCh Investigation of Transiting Extrasolar Planets
- Tilak Hewagama: The Astronomical Color of Earth from EPOXI Observations
- Comets I
- Lori Feaga: Composition of 9P/Tempel 1's Natural Outbursts
- Michael Belton: Fluidization and Multiphase Transport of Particulate Cometary Material as an Explanation of the Smooth Terrains on 9P/Tempel 1
- Jay Melosh: Smooth Terrain on Comet Tempel 1: A Gas-Fluidized Landslide
- Comets II
- Comets (Posters)
- Dennis Wellnitz: Deep Impact, the Movie: From the Point of View of the Impactor Spacecraft
- Education
- Prize Lectures
- Kuiper Award -- Michael A'Hearn: Comets and the Solar System