DIVISION ON DYNAMICAL ASTRONOMY
American Astronomical Society

1995 Meeting - Program Agenda
Yosemite, CA

					

Sunday, 23 April 1995, Yosemite Lodge lobby

7:00 PM	Registration and Yosemite Information
	

Monday 24, April 1995, Yosemite Lodge Cliff/Falls room
	
12:30 PM	Registration

Session 1

1:00 PM	100 years of occultations:  A statistical view
	D. Mink

1:20 PM	HST astrometry of the Uranian inner satellite system
	D. Pascu, J. Rohde, P. Seidelmann, D. Currie, D. Dowling, E. Wells, C. Kowal, B. Zellner, A. Storrs

1:40 PM	On the flux of millimetric space debris
	S. Goldstein, R. Goldstein

2:00 PM	Making sense out of 1985 and 1991 mutual events
	J. Lieske

2:20 PM	Searching for planets near Proxima Centauri: A status report (4/95)
	G.F. Benedict, B. McArthur, E. Nelan, A. Whipple, D. Story, Q. Wang, W. Jefferys, H. Coleman, D. Chappell, J. McCartney, P. Hemenway, P. Shelus, R. Duncombe, W. van Altena, O. Franz, L. Fredrick

2:40 PM	Re-reduction of the southern polar zone of the Yale photographic catalog
	J. Morrison

3:00 PM	Break

Session 2:  Invited Talk
	
3:20 PM	The Lick northern proper motion (NPM) catalogs:  a database for galactic studies
	R. Hanson

Session 3

4:20 PM	The dynamical system and fundamental star catalogs
	T. Corbin


4:40 PM	Linking Hipparcos to the VLBI reference system using the HST fine guidance sensors:  first results
	P. Hemenway, R. Duncombe, A. Lalich, B. McArthur, E. Nelan, G. Benedict, W. Jefferys, P. Shelus, E. Bozyan, N. Argue, O. Franz, D. Taylor, J. Kovalevsky, M. Perryman, C. Turon, R. Preston, K. Johnston, J. Kristian, M. Lattanzi, L. Fredrick, W. van Altena, J. Lestrade

5:00 PM	Parallaxes of quasars
	R. Smart, B. Bucciarelli, G. Chiumiento, A. Ferrari, L. Lanteri, M. Lattanzi, G. Massone, F. Porcu, F. Racioppi

5:20 PM	A Schmidt plate magnitude term
	L. Taff, J. Morrison, S. Ršser, B. Lasker, R. Smart

	
Tuesday 25, April 1995, Yosemite Lodge Cliff/Falls room
	
Session 4

9:00 AM	Transient torque on a dissipationless annulus at the 2:1 orbital resonance
	J. Espresate, J. Lissauer

9:20 AM	Transient torque on a dissipationless annulus at the 2:1 orbital resonance.  II. Initially eccentric ring particles
	J. Lissauer, J. Espresate

9:40 AM	Radiation pressure, Poynting-Robertson drag, and solar wind drag in the restricted three-body problem
	J. Liou, H. Zook, and A. Jackson

10:00 AM	A numerical scheme to integrate the rotational motion of a quasi-rigid Earth
	T. Fukushima

10:20 AM	Break

Session 5	

10:40 AM	Mappings and integrators on the edge of chaos
	W. Newman, F. Varadi, K. Grazier, W. Kaula

11:00 AM	Application of Bayesian statistics to lunar data analysis
	J.G. Ries and W. Jefferys

11:20 AM	Computer representation of Brown's lunar theory will incorporate relativity
	S. Deines and C. Williams

11:40 AM	Some Consequences of Using Gravitational Softening to Model N-body Galaxies
	R. Gerber

12:00 AM	Lunch
	
Session 6	

1:10 PM	Mass segregation in the globular cluster NGC 6397
	I. King, C. Sosis, A. Cool

1:30 PM	Disruption of the globular cluster Pal 5
	R. Miller and B. Smith

1:50 PM	Outside-in protostellar collapse
	A. Boss

2:10 PM	An n-body calculation of the oscillations of stellar systems
	P. Vandervoort

2:30 PM	Break
	
Session 7:  Brouwer Lecture

2:50 PM	Bending waves in flattened stellar systems
	C. Hunter


3:50 PM	DDA Business Meeting
	
Banquet

6:30 PM	Cash Bar

7:00 PM	Dinner

	The founding of the DDA; a few recollections
	R. Duncombe


Wednesday 26, April 1995, Yosemite Lodge Cliff/Falls room
	
Session 8	
	
9:00 AM	Hyperion: chaotic rotation revisited
	P. Nicholson, G. Black, P. Thomas

9:20 AM	The great inequality and the secular motion of the Jovian planets
	F. Varadi, W. Kaula, M. Ghil

9:40 AM	On the Titan-Hyperion orbital resonance
	S. Peale

10:00 AM	Constraints on Mercury's tidal history from the 3:2 spin-orbit resonance
	C. Yoder

10:20 AM	Break
	
Session 9

10:40 AM	The Motion of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 prior to its 1992 perijove
	P. Chodas and D. Yeomans

11:00 AM	The orbits of the minor Saturnian satellites
	R. Jacobson

11:20 AM	The orbital dynamics of the NEAR mission asteroids
	A. Whipple, P. Shelus

11:40 AM	Prospects for finding asteroid masses
	J. Hilton, J. Middour, P. Seidelmann

12:00 PM	TOPEX/POSEIDON as an example of high precision orbit determination for geodetic satellites
	J.C. Ries

12:20 PM	Lunch
	
Session 10:  Invited Talk

1:50 PM	Planetary rings update
	J. Cuzzi

Session 11

2:50 PM	The JPL planetary and lunar ephemerides DE402/LE402
	E.M. Standish

3:10 PM	Break
	
3:30 PM	Constraints on the Kuiper belt from Pluto's orbit
	W. Kaula

3:50 PM	Secular resonances and cometary orbits in the b Pictoris system
	H. Levison, M. Duncan, G. Wetherill

4:10 PM	Some properties of remote, hypothetical satellites of Jupiter
	H. Bailey, S. Goldstein

4:30 PM	An exhaustive search for stable orbits between the outer planets
	K. Grazier, W. Newman, W. Kaula, F. Varadi, J. Hyman


	
Posters	

	Optical field angle distortion calibration for the Hubble Space Telescope fine guidance sensors
	W. Jefferys, B. McArthur, Q. Wang, A. Whipple, G. Benedict

	Astrometric precision and accuracy with HST FGS3 in the transfer function scan mode - an update
	O. Franz, L. Wasserman, T. Kreidl, A. Bradley, G. Benedict, R. Duncombe, P. Hemenway, W. Jefferys, B. McArthur, E. Nelan, P. Shelus, D. Story, A. Whipple, L. Fredrick, W. van Altena, M. Lattanzi, L. Taff

	Edge waves and librations in the Uranus e ring
	R. French and P. Nicholson

	Lunar laser ranging at McDonald Observatory:  Beginning the second quarter century
	P.J. Shelus,  R.L. Ricklefs, J.G. Ries, A.L. Whipple, and J.R. Wiant