From Here to Pluto-Charon:
A New Horizons PKB Mission Workshop

Monday May 20 - Tuesday May 21 2002
Boulder, CO

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Workshop announcement and scope

NASA has selected the New Horizons mission to proceed with the detailed design (Phase B) of a mission to Pluto and the Kuiper belt. The baseline mission will launch in January 2006, conduct an intense Jovian system observation campaign during its Jupiter Gravity Assist flyby in March 2007, fly by Pluto-Charon in 2015, and visit up to three KBOs in order to sample the diversity of the Kuiper Belt. More information about the New Horizons project can be found at: http://www.boulder.swri.edu/pkb/ and http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/ .

New Horizons will hold a 2-day Pluto-Kuiper Belt workshop in Boulder on May 20 and 21 in support of mission science and broad mission participation by community members. The New Horizons project is organizing this workshop in order to better inform the community of mission plans and participation opportunities, and to solicit community input on scientific topics crucial to mission planning. The two themes of the workshop are predictions for the time of the encounter and groundbased and spacebased observations from here to 2015 in support of encounter planning. Similar workshops for the New Horizons Jupiter encounter and KBO exploration are planned for 2003 and 2004, respectively.

Participation is open to the community. The program will have both invited and contributed talks, although it may also include posters is the response is unexpectedly large. Contributed talks will be 12-15 minutes long. There is a nominal speaker's rule of one contributed talk (or poster) per presenter.

To express interest in attending this workshop, please complete the form found under Registration below.
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Contact

The meeting organizers are Andy Cheng (APL, 240-228-5415, Andy.Cheng@jhuapl.edu.edu ) and Leslie Young (SwRI; 303-546-6057, layoung@boulder.swri.edu ).

For workshop questions, please email: pkbworkshop@boulder.swri.edu to reach us both.

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Location

Southwest Research Institute, Department of Space Studies , 1050 Walnut St, Suite 426 , Boulder, CO 80309

More information about Boulder and logistics can be found here
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Deadlines

Monday March 18: Register. We need your presentation title for planning purposes!

Tuesday April 16: Abstract deadline

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Program

Presenters: we have hook-ups for computer presentation (Mac or PC), two viewgraph projectors, and a slide projector. If you need two slide projectors, let us know so we can borrow one. If you have specific questions about computer projection, contack Dirk Terrel ( terrell@boulder.swri.edu ).

Monday May 20, 2002

Time Author(s) Affiliation Email Title
(red = invited: 30 min + 10 min Q&A;
black = contributed: 15 min + 5 min Q&A)
8:40 Alan Stern SwRI astern@swri.edu New Horizons mission overview
9:20 Jeff Moore NASA Ames Research Center jmoore@mail.arc.nasa.gov Geology and geophysics of Pluto and Charon with New Horizons
10:00 Will Grundy Lowell Observatory grundy@lowell.edu Compositions of Pluto and Charon with New Horizons
10:50 BREAK      
10:50 Randy Gladstone SwRI randy@whistler.space.swri.edu Atmosphere of Pluto with New Horizons
11:30 Leslie Young SwRI layoung@boulder.swri.edu CH4 and CO in Pluto's atmosphere
11:50 Eliot Young SwRI efy@boulder.swri.edu High Resolution Spectroscopy of Pluto near 890 nm
12:10 LUNCH      
1:50 David Tholen University of Hawaii tholen@ifa.hawaii.edu Refining the Eccentric Orbit of Charon
2:10 S. I. Ipatov & J.C. Mather Goddard Space Flight Center siipatov@hotmail.com Migration of trans-Neptunian objects to a near-Earth space
2:30 Fran Bagenal LASP, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder bagenal@colorado.edu Particles and Plasmas near Pluto-Charon with New Horizons
3:10 BREAK      
3:20 W. B. McKinnon & A. M. Hofmeister Washington Univ. mckinnon@levee.wustl.edu Ice XI on Pluto and Charon?
3:40 Geoffrey Collins & Robert T. Pappalardo Wheaton College gcollins@wheatonma.edu Tidal Evolution and the Tectonics of Pluto and Charon
4:00 Greg Rawls Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) grawls@mcrel.org Content Into Curricula: Translating New Horizons Science Into Classroom Learning Opportunities

Tuesday May 21, 2002

Time Author(s) Affiliation Email Title
(red = invited: 30 min + 10 min Q&A;
black = contributed: 15 min + 5 min Q&A)
8:40 Darrell Strobel Johns Hopkins University strobel@jhu.edu Expectations for Pluto's atmosphere in 2015
9:20 John Spencer Lowell Observatory spencer@lowell.edu Expectations for Pluto's surface in 2015
10:00 Eberhard Gruen MPI-K and HIGP eberhard.gruen@mpi-hd.mpg.de Dust at Pluto and Beyond
10:20 BREAK      
10:30 J.-C. Liou & Markus Landgraf Lockheed Martin jer-chyi.liou1@jsc.nasa.gov Dust Environment in the Outer Solar System and Structure of the Kuiper Belt Dust Disk
10:50 Marc Buie Lowell Observatory buie@lowell.edu Photometry, spectroscopy, and mapping
11:30 Jim Elliot MIT jle@mit.edu Stellar Occultations
12:10 LUNCH      
1:50 Bonnie Buratti JPL bonnie.buratti@jpl.nasa.gov Triton and Pluto: A comparison of changes in ground-based photometry
2:10 Stephen Tegler Northern Arizona University Stephen.Tegler@nau.edu Resolution of the Kuiper Belt Object Color Controversy: Two Distinct Color Populations
2:30 Alan Stern SwRI astern@swri.edu Cassini Opportunities to Observe Pluto-Charon
2:50 Hermann Boehnhardt ESO Very Large Telescope VLT hboehnha@eso.org Ground-based Support for the Pluto Mission from ESO Observatories
3:10 W. M. Grundy, M. W. Buie, and J. R. Spencer Lowell Observatory grundy@lowell.edu Pluto and Triton at 3-4 microns: Possible evidence for wide distribution of non-volatile solids.
3:30 BREAK      
3:40 Bill Mckinnon Washington Univ. mckinnon@levee.wustl.edu Wrap-up/Raconteur
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Lodging

You can find lists of places to stay at the Boulder Colorado convention and visitors bureau site, or on this summary list. General information about Boulder and logistics can be found here.

Some recommendations are:

Boulder Marriott 2660 Canyon Boulevard Boulder, CO 80302 Phone: 800-228-9290 or 303-440-8877 Facsimile: 303-440-3377 (15 blocks away; walkable if you're in the mood);

Millennium Hotel Boulder 1345 28th Street Boulder, CO 80302 Phone: 800-545-6285 or 303-443-3850 Facsimile: 303-443-1480

Boulderado Hotel 2115 13th St Boulder, CO 303-442-4344 (close, very fancy, pricey)

University Inn 1632 Broadway Boulder, CO 80302 Phone: 800-258-7917 or 303-442-3830 Facsimile: 303-442-1205

Homewood Suites Hotel 4950 Baseline Road Boulder, CO 80303 Phone: 303-499-9922 Facsimile: 303-499-6706 (SwRI employees can can direct bill)

Best Western Inn 770 28th St Boulder, CO 303-449-3800 (far but cheaper)
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Registration

The registration page is here. We request a presentation title from you by March 18 for planning purposes.

There is a $25 registration fee. The form for sending in the payment is here. Pre-payment by April 16 is encouraged, or you can pay the at the door.
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Abstracts

Abstracts should be 1-2 pages in length for contributed talks, and 1-3 pages for invited talks. Abstracts should be mailed to pkbworkshop@boulder.swri.edu. You can send abstracts as text in the body of the mail, or as attachments in Word, text, RTF, or PDF formats.
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Updated Feb 19, 2002