Asteroids, Comets and Meteors, Berlin July 29-Aug 3

From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 23:58:09 MDT


Asteroids, Comets and Meteors, Berlin July 29-Aug 3
http://berlinadmin.dlr.de/SGF/acm2002/

This conference is held in different locations over the world every three
years since 1983.

The topics that will be covered at ACM 2002 include:

   NEOs (searches, numbers, sources, physical characterization, etc.)

   Collisions and impacts (cratering, hazard, evolution of life, bolides and
   superbolides)

   TNOs / comet nuclei / asteroid connections - similarities and contrasts

   Binaries, rubble piles and asteroid and comet-nucleus structure

   The asteroid-meteorite connection

   Comets / meteor showers / interplanetary material connections

   Dynamics (origin of comets, MBA->NEA evolution, Yarkovsky Effect,
   families)

   Transitional objects - relationship between comet nuclei, asteroids and
   meteoroids

   Origin and evolution of the Solar System and other planetary systems -
   implications from ACM studies

   Space missions - recent results; future prospects

The final program is online now.

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Amara Graps, PhD             | Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik
Heidelberg Cosmic Dust Group | Saupfercheckweg 1
+49-6221-516-543             | 69117 Heidelberg, GERMANY
Amara.Graps@mpi-hd.mpg.de    * http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/dustgroup/~graps
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