31st Annual Meeting, April 9-12, 2000

American Astronomical Society's
Division on Dynamical Astronomy

Sunday, April 9, 2000

9:00 AM Committee Meeting

1:45 PM Registration

2:00 PM Opening Remarks (Stan Peale, Roy Laubscher, Joe Burns)
Dedication to Bill Kaula

Session 1: ORIGINS [Jack Lissauer, chair]

2:10 PM Migrating Planets [INVITED]

Norm Murray

3:00 PM Stability of the Upsilon Andromedae System

E.J. Rivera & J.J. Lissauer

3:15 PM On Collective Behavior in a Planetesimal Disk

W.R. Ward

3:30 PM Tidal Interaction between a Planet and a Three-dimensional Gas Disk

H. Tanaka, T. Takeuchi & W.R. Ward

3:45 PM Soft Drink Break with Poster Papers:

Heating of Dust Particles in Radiative Shock Wave Generated in Protoplanetary Disk

K. K.Tanaka & M. Horanyi

Elemental Fractionation during Rapid Accretion of the Moon

K. Zahnle, Y. Abe & A. Hashimoto

4:15PM The Rate of Chaotic Diffusion in the Interaction of Two Planets

G.R. Stewart

4:30 PM Stirring Rate of Planetesimals Based on Three-Body Orbital Integrations

K. Ohtsuki, G.R. Stewart & S. Ida

4:45 PM The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Assessing the Results of Planetary Accretion Simulations

J.E. Chambers & J.J. Lissauer

5:15 PM The Role of Giant Planets in Terrestrial Planet Formation

H.F. Levison, M.J. Duncan & C.B. Agnor

5:30 PM Planet Migration via Numerous Stochastic Scattering Events

J.M. Hahn & R. Malhotra

5:45 PM Implications of a Scattered Uranus and Neptune

E.W. Thommes, M.J. Duncan, H.F. Levison & J.E. Chambers

6:00 PM Orbital Evolution of KBOs due to the Sweeping Secular Resonances

M. Nagasawa & S. Ida

6:45-8:45 PM Reception (hors d'oeuvres, cash bar)

Registration

Monday, April 10, 2000

8:00 AM Origin of the Moon [INVITED; Joe Burns, chair]

R.M. Canup

Session 2: SOLAR SYSTEM DYNAMICS [Mark Showalter, chair]

8:50 AM Numerical Integration, Lyapunov Exponents and the Outer Solar System

W.I. Newman, F. Varadi, A.Y. Lee, W.M. Kaula, K.R. Grazier & J.M. Hyman

9:05 AM A Numerical Examination of the Long-Term Coherency of Meteoroid Streams in Near-Earth Orbit

K.R. Grazier & M.E. Lipschutz

9:20 AM Long-term Integrations of the Solar System

Ferenc Varadi

9:35 AM The Stability of the Terrestrial Planets in Systems with a Planet in the Asteroid Belt

E.V. Quintana, E.J. Rivera, J.J. Lissauer & M.J. Duncan

9:50 AM Coffee Break with Poster Papers

The Determination of the Orbits of the Outer Jovian Satellites

R A. Jacobson

The Fate of Ejecta from Hyperion

A R. Dobrovolskis & J.J. Lissauer

10:15 AM Asteroid Noise in the Motions of the Inner Planets

M.A. Murison

10:30 AM Dynamical Evolution of Main-Belt Meteoroids with Planetary Perturbations and Yarkovsky Drag

J.A. Burns, W.F. Bottke & D.P. Rubincam

10:45 AM The Puzzle of the Titan-Hyperion 4:3 Orbital Resonance

M.H. Lee & S.J. Peale

11:00 AM Detection of a Europan Ocean from Tides and Rotation

C.F. Yoder

11:15 AM Resonances, Drag Forces and the Jacobi Constant

[INVITED] D.P. Hamilton

12:05 PM Lunch

Session 3: COLLISIONS [Hal Levison, chair]

1:30 PM Asteroid Hazard: Algorithms for Computation of Actual Cases

[INVITED] A. Milani, G.B. Valsecchi & S.R. Chesley

2:20 PM An Automatic Earth-Asteroid Collision Monitoring System

S.R. Chesley & A. Milani

2:35 PM Estimating Impact Probability Using Monte Carlo Techniques

P.W. Chodas

2:50 PM The Population of Near-Earth Asteroids

A.W. Harris

3:05 PM The Statistics of Large Impacts on the Terrestrial Planets

L. Dones, K.J. Zahnle, W.F. Bottke & H.F. Levison

3:20 PM Giant Impacts and the Distribution of Planetary Obliquities

J.J. Lissauer, E.J. Rivera, M.J. Duncan & H.F. Levison

3:35PM Soft Drink Break with Poster Papers

Minimal Orbital Intersection Distance: Computation, Uncertainty and Secular Evolution

G.F. Gronchi, C Bonanno & A. Milani

On the Dynamic Stability of Saturn's F Ring

F. Poulet & S. Jancart

Session 4: RINGS [Luke Dones, chair]

4:00 PM Modeling the Azimuthal Brightness Asymmetry in Saturn's Rings

H. Salo, R. Karjalainen & R.G. French

4:15 PM HST Observations of the Azimuthal Brightness Asymmetry in Saturn's Rings R.G. French, L. Dones & H. Salo

4:30 PM The First Radar Images of Saturn's Rings

P.D. Nicholson, D.B. Campbell, R.G. French, G.J. Black, M. Nolan & J.-L. Margot

4:45 PM Dynamics of Clumps and Strands in Saturn's F Ring

M.R. Showalter

5:00 PM The viscosity in an optically thick planetary ring

H. Daisaka, H. Tanaka & S. Ida

5:15 PM New Dynamical Mass Estimate for the Uranian Alpha Ring

I. Mosqueira & P.R. Estrada

5:30 PM Effects of Particle Size on Wakes at the Encke Gap

M.C. Lewis & G.R. Stewart

5:45 PM A Scenario for Saturn's Ring Formation

F. Poulet

Tuesday, April 11, 2000

8:00 AM BROUWER PRIZE LECTURE [Stan Peale, chair]:

Individual and Statistical Aspects of Star Motions

Vadim Antonov [Paper Read by D. Merritt]

Session 5: GALACTIC DYNAMICS [David Merritt, chair]

8:50 AM The Orbital Structure of Eccentric Nuclear Disks

T.S.Statler & R.M. Salow

9:05 AM Self-Consistent Models of Eccentric Nuclear Disks

R.M. Salow & T.S. Statler

9:20 AM Tidal Perturbation and Markarian Activity in Disk Galaxy Pairs

G. Byrd & M. Valtonen

9:35 AM Coffee Break with Poster Papers

The Galaxy Interaction and Merger Rates: A Science Scenario for a National Virtual Observatory (NVO)

K. D. Borne & C. Y. Cheung

NGC 4314 - a Galaxy Dynamicist's Playground

G.F. Benedict, D.A. Howell, I. Jorgensen, B.J. Smith & J.D.P. Kenney

10:00 AM The Ultra-Luminous IR Galaxy Interaction Rate

K. D. Borne, R. A. Lucas, L. Colina,& H. Bushouse

10:15 AM Star Formation in One- and Two-Fold Resonance Ring Galaxies

T. Freeman, G. Byrd, D. Ousley & D. Domingue

10:30 AM Fission: A Mechanism for Forming Binary Stars

J.E. Tohline & J.E. Cazes

10:45 AM Microlensing as a Probe of Galactic Dark Matter and Extra-solar Planets

Kim Griest [INVITED]

11:35 AM Lunch

Session 6: ASTROMETRY AND BINARIES [Bob Reasenberg, chair]

1:00 PM Astrometry and Bayesian Analysis

W. Jefferys

1:15 PM Interferometric Astrometry with Hubble Space Telescope - A Review

G.F. Benedict, B.E. McArthur, O.G. Franz, L.H.Wasserman, T.J.Henry, T. Takato, I. Strateva & Astrometry Science Team

1:30 PM Resolution and Orbit Reconstruction of Spectroscopic Binary Stars with the Palomar Testbed Interferometer

A.F. Boden, B.F. Lane, M.J. Creech-Eakman, D. Queloz & C D. Koresko

1:45 PM The First US Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog

N. Zacharias, T.J. Rafferty & M.I. Zacharias

2:00 PM Robert G. Aitken and His ADS: Double Star Observer, Cataloguer, Statistician, and Observatory Director

D. E. Osterbrock

2:15 PM The Suitability of Hipparcos Doubles to Represent the ICRF

T.E. Corbin, S.E. Urban & B.D. Mason

2:30 PM Results on the Structure and Mass of the Pleiades from a 2MASS-USNO Proper Motion Search

J.D. Adams, J.R. Stauffer, D.G. Monet, M.F. Skrustkie & C.A. Beichmann

2:45 PM A Search for Stars Passing Close to the Sun: II. Integrated Orbits, Observational Completeness, and Future Missions

P.R. Weissman, J. Garcia-Sanchez & R.A. Preston

3:00 PM Observational Model for the Space Interferometry Mission

S.G. Turyshev & M.H. Milman

3:15 PM Business Meeting [Stan Peale, chair]

4:30-6:30 PM Free time

6:30 PM No-host Bar

7:15 PM Banquet

8:30 PM The End of the Universe

Greg Laughlin

Wednesday, April 12, 2000

Session 7: SPACECRAFT ORBITS [Bob Jacobson, chair]

8:30 AM Orbit Determination at Eros: NEAR Spacecraft Dynamics and Initial Results

J.D. Giorgini, J.K. Miller, P.G. Antreasian, B.G. Williams, C.E. Helfrich, W.M. Owen, T.C. Wang, D.K. Yeomans, E. Carranza & S.R. Chesley

8:45 AM Perturbations of a Spacecraft during a Hyperbolic Flyby

N.J. Rappaport, G. Giampieri & J.D. Anderson

9:00 AM Astrometry-Based Analysis of Cassini's Earth Flyby

R. L. Mansfield

9:15 AM Coffee Break with Poster Papers

Double Stars in the Tycho-2 Catalogue

B.D. Mason, G.L. Wycoff, S.E. Urban, W.I. Hartkopf & E.R. Holdenfried

The Fifth Catalog of Orbits of Visual Binary Stars --- Making the Grade

W.I. Hartkopf & B.D. Mason

A Deflection Test of General Relativity Using the FAME Data

R. D. Reasenberg

Session 8: RELATIVITY [Fritz Benedict, chair]

9:45AM Gravity Probe B [INVITED]

C.W.F. Everitt

10:35AM A New Test of the Principle of Equivalence

R.D. Reasenberg & J.D. Phillips

10:50 AM Relativistic Effects upon Orbital Parameters

E.M. Standish

11:05 AM A Cutoff for Blackbody Radiation

M. Cahill

11:20 AM Late Papers [Stan Peale, chair]

12 noon Close of Meeting

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