Oral Programme TP2

Mercury
Convener: J. Benkhoff 
Co-Convener: S. C. Solomon 

Session Details

Poster Programme

Tuesday, 15 Sep 2009 Room: LR1 Chairperson: J. Benkhoff
	New Results from MERCURY
09:00–09:15	EPSC2009-212 MESSENGER’S first and second flybys of Mercury: A scientific overview S. C. Solomon, R. L. McNutt Jr., B. J. Anderson, D. L. Domingue, L. G. Evans, R. E. Gold, J. W. Head, S. M. Krimigis, S. L. Murchie, L. R. Nittler, R. J. Phillips, J. A. Slavin, and M. T. Zuber
09:15–09:30	EPSC2009-653 The Equatorial Shape, Topography and Gravity of Mercury from the MESSENGER Flybys of 2008 M. T. Zuber, D.E. Smith, R.J. Phillips, S.C. Solomon, and J. Oberst
09:30–09:45	EPSC2009-340 Mercury’s Raditladi basin: A puzzling example of extensional tectonics in an unusually young impact feature L.M. Prockter, O.S. Barnouin-Jha, S.L. Solomon, C.R. Chapman, B.W. Denevi, J.W. Head, T.R. Watters, D.T. Blewett, and J. Gillis-Davis
09:45–10:00	EPSC2009-552 Compositional units along the M1 and M2 MASCS ground tracks from prinicipal component and clustering analyses M. D'Amore, J. Helbert, A. Maturilli, N. R. Izenberg, A. L. Sprague, G. M. Holsclaw, J. W. Head, W. E. McClintock, and S. C. Solomon
10:00–10:15	EPSC2009-384 MESSENGER observations of Mercury’s Dynamic Atmosphere and Magnetosphere S. M. Krimigis, J. A. Slavin, M. A. Acuna, B. J. Anderson, D. N. Baker, M. Benna, S. A. Boardsen, G. Gloeckler, R. E. Gold, G. C. Ho and the MESSENGER Atmosphere-Magnetosphere Discipline Group Team
10:15–10:30	EPSC2009-610 Mercury’s magnetospheric magnetic field after the first and second MESSENGER flybys (withdrawn) I. Alekseev, E. Belenkaya, J. Slavin, B. Anderson, D. Baker, S. Boardsen, C. Johnson, H. Korth, M. Purucker, and S. Solomon
Coffee Break
Chairperson: S. C. Solomon
	Modelling Mercury
11:00–11:15	EPSC2009-231 The Thermal Evolution of Mercury and the Implications for Volcanism, Topography and Geoid R. Ziethe and J. Benkhoff
11:15–11:30	EPSC2009-420 Proton precipitation and backscattering on Mercury surface A. Mura, A. Milillo, S. Orsini, C. Plainaki, A.M. Di Lellis, E. De Angelis, V. Mangano, and S. Massetti
11:30–11:40	EPSC2009-371 Libration and obliquity of Mercury from the BepiColombo radio science and camera experiments G. Pfyffer, T. Van Hoolst, and V. Dehant
11:40–11:50	EPSC2009-566 Space Weathering on Mercury: Simulation of Plagioclase Weathering S. Sasaki, T. Hiroi, T. Arai, and J. Helbert
11:50–12:00	EPSC2009-695 The High Resolution Imaging Channel of the SIMBIO-SYS instrument aboard the BepiColombo mission to Mercury M. Zusi, L. Colangeli, G. Marra, E. Mazzotta Epifani, P. Palumbo, S. Debei, and E. Flamini
12:00–12:30	Panel Discussion: Mercury - implications of new results and models for future observations