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Oral Programme PS2.3

PS2.3

Mercury
Convener: Johannes Benkhoff  | Co-Convener: Ulrich Christensen 
Oral Programme
 / Thu, 07 Apr, 10:30–12:15  / Room 29
Poster Programme
 / Attendance Wed, 06 Apr, 17:30–19:00  / Display Wed, 06 Apr, 08:00–19:30  / Hall Z
Poster Summaries & DiscussionsPSD40 

Thursday, 7 April 2011
Room 29
Chairperson: Ruth Ziethe
First "in orbit" results from MESSENGER

10:30–10:45
EGU2011-11251
Initial Orbital Phase Results of the MESSENGER Geophysics Investigation (solicited)
Maria Zuber and the Maria Zuber
10:45–11:00 EGU2011-5202
MESSENGER Observations and Models of Exospheric Magnesium on Mercury on the Eve of Orbit Insertion (withdrawn)
Menelaos Sarantos, Rosemary Killen, William McClintock, Ronald Vervack, Jr, Mehdi Benna, James Slavin, and Sean Solomon
Radio Science at Mercury

11:00–11:15
EGU2011-11231
The BepiColombo mission to Mercury and the role of the ISA accelerometer in the Radio Science Experiments: status and perspectives
Valerio Iafolla, David M. Lucchesi, Sergio Nozzoli, Francesco Santoli, Roberto Peron, Emiliano Fiorenza, and Carlo Lefevre
11:15–11:30
EGU2011-3058
Modeling the rotation of Mercury including pressure coupling
Benoît Noyelles, Julien Dufey, and Anne Lemaitre
11:30–11:45
EGU2011-13565
Simulation of BepiColombo's Mercury Rotation Experiment
Paolo Tortora, Alessandro Bevilacqua, Ludovico Carozza, Antonio Genova, Alessandro Gherardi, Luciano Iess, Rachele Meriggiola, Alessandra Palli, Pasquale Palumbo, and Michele Zusi
11:45–12:00
EGU2011-12152
BepiColombo radio science experiment: determination of Mercury's gravity field
Antonio Genova, Manuela Marabucci, and Luciano Iess
X-ray science

12:00–12:15 EGU2011-1420
The Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer (MIXS) on BepiColombo as a Probe of Mercury's Magnetosphere (withdrawn)
Dean L. Talboys, Emma J. Bunce, George W. Fraser, Adrian Martindale, and Yasuhito Narita