Date: December 6-7th, 2007
Time: 9am
- 5pm
Venue: NASA Ames Research Center, Auditorium, Building N-245, Mountain View, CA
Organizing Committee: Ignacio Mosqueira (NASA Ames/SETI Institute), Dale Cruikshank (NASA Ames)
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Owing to spacecraft missions and groundbased observations, we possess a wealth
of Solar System data. The richness of the observations should provide a solid
foundation for our understanding of the early history of the Solar System.
Yet, this abundance also means that in practice one must subdivide the problem
into more manageable pieces. While this is a practical approach, before
reliable conclusions can be obtained in this way, they must survive
consistency checks, and a battery of tests involving a sufficiently broad
observational sample. Only then can we attain a deeper understanding of the
origins of planetary systems in general, and the Solar System in particular.
The objective of this meeting is to address a number of key aspects of the early history of the outer Solar System. The emphasis is on the origin of the giant and dwarf planets and of their satellites, and on the connections and contrasts that exist between planetary and satellite systems. The aim is to bring together a diverse group of researchers employing independent sets of constraints. Discussion of laboratory work will be included when appropriate. |
Note: Please email Ignacio Mosqueira at mosqueir@cosmic.arc.nasa.gov if you are interested in attending this meeting.
Meeting Schedule
| Reception at SETI Institute | |
| Program with Abstracts |
Contributors
Introductory remarks by Tim Lee, Acting Chief of the Space Science and Astrobiology Division
| Masahiko Arakawa (Nagoya U.) | Michael Brown (CalTech) | |||
| Jason Cook (SwRI) | Dale Cruikshank (NASA Ames) | |||
| Steve Desch (Arizona State) | Jeremy Goodman (Princeton) | |||
| Uma Gorti (NASA Ames) | Howard Houben (BAER Institute) | |||
| Torrence Johnson (JPL) | Jack Lissauer (NASA Ames) | |||
| Yoram Lithwick (CITA) | Renu Malhotra (U. of Arizona) | |||
| Rachel Mastrapa (NASA Ames) | Dennis Matson (JPL) | |||
| Ignacio Mosqueira (NASA/SETI) | Naor Movshovitz (Tel Aviv U.) | |||
| Keith Noll (STSI) | Ted Roush (NASA Ames) | |||
| Scott Sandford (NASA Ames) | Hilke Schlichting (CalTech) | |||
| Gerald Schubert (UCLA) | Orkan Umurhan (Tel Aviv U./Col. of S.F.) |