NASA Quarterly
UVIS
Q2 - 2010
(February - April 2010)
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UVIS: Science Highlights
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UVIS: Accomplishments
• Publications
– Published this quarter
7
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In Press (Went into press Feb-Apr and also includes still in press from earlier quarters)
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Submitted (Submitted Feb-Apr and also includes submitted earlier and still in review) 16
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Published 2010 to date:
27
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Published Entire mission
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• Presentations at scientific conferences (Feb - Apr 2010)
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None
• Public Outreach and Press Activities (Feb - Apr 2010)
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3: public talks
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0: press releases
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2: press conferences (phone interviews)
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UVIS: Plans
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Science Plans (May - Jul 2010)
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Analyze T66 flyby from January 28th (Hedelt)
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Resume deliveries of high-level data products of ring stellar occultations to the Planetary Data System. (Colwell)
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Observe occultation of sun by Enceladus’ plume on Rev 131. Detection of N2 is the goal. (Hansen)
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Normalize Minnaert phase function in order to determine absolute albedo of ring particles in the C ring and Cassini Division. (Bradley)
Publications (May - Jul 2010) — In preparation (includes submitted up to now, but not yet published)
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1 paper in press at Advance in Geophysics
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1 paper in press at Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences
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2 papers in review in ApJ
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1 paper in review in ApJ Letters
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1 paper in review at Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy
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1 paper in review at Charged Particles and Photon Interactions with Matter, Taylor Francis
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2 papers in review in GRL
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1 paper in press in the proceedings book of the IAU Symposium 263
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6 papers in review Icarus
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2 papers in review at Planet. Space. Sci.
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1 paper in review at Scholarpedia
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Upcoming presentations at scientific conferences (May - Jul 2010)
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2 papers at the EGU, VIenna, May 2010 (Esposito, Liu)
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1 paper at the Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Taipei, Tiawan, June 2010 (Yung)
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3 papers at COSPAR, Bremen, Germany, July 2010 (Colwell, Esposito, Hansen)
Public Outreach and Press Activities (May - Jul 2010)
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1: public talk (Colwell: Running Rings Around Saturn, Public Talk at the OASIS 23 science fiction convention in Orlando, May 29 2010.)
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0: press releases
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0: press conferences (phone interviews)
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Backup Material
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UVIS: Publications - 2010
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Bradley, E. T., Colwell, J.E., Esposito, L.W., Cuzzi, J.N., Tollerud, H., Chambers, L., 2010. Far Ultraviolet Spectral Properties of Saturn’s
Rings from Cassini UVIS. Icarus. 206, 458-466
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Charnoz, S., L. Dones, L.W. Esposito, P.R. Estrada, M.M. Hedman. 2009. Origin and evolution of Saturn’s ring system, A chapter in the
book Saturn From Cassini-Huygens. M. Dougherty et al. Eds. 17, 537-575. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer-Verlag. [All SpringerVerlag chapters were published in October after the Q4 Quarterly Report was submitted]
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Colwell, J. E., P.D. Nicholson, M.S. Tiscareno, C.D. Murray, R.G. French, and E.A. Marouf. 2009. The Structure of Saturn’s Rings. A
chapter in the book Saturn From Cassini-Huygens. M. Dougherty et al. Eds. 13, 375-412. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer-Verlag. pp.
375-412.
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Cravens, T.E. , R. V. Yelle, J.-E. Wahlund, D. E. Shemansky. 2009. Composition and Structure of the Ionosphere and Thermosphere. A
chapter in the book Titan from Cassini Huygens. R.H. Brown et al. Eds. 11, 259-296. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer-Verlag.
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Cuzzi, J., Clark, R., Filacchione, G., French, R., Johnson, R., Marouf, E., and Spilker, L.. 2009. Ring Particle Composition and Size
Distribution. A chapter in the book Saturn From Cassini-Huygens. M. Dougherty et al. Eds. 15, 459-509. Dordrecht, Netherlands:
Springer-Verlag.
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Cuzzi, J. N., J. A. Burns, S. Charnoz, R. N. Clark, J. E. Colwell, L. Dones, L. W. Esposito, G. Filacchione, R. G. French, M. M. Hedman,
S. Kempf, E. A. Marouf, C. D. Murray, P. D. Nicholson, C. C. Porco, J. Schmidt, M. R. Showalter, L. J. Spilker, J. N. Spitale, R. Srama, M.
Sremcevic, M. S. Tiscareno, J. Weiss. 2010. An Evolving View of Saturn’s Dynamic Rings. Science, 327, 1470-1475,
doi:10.1126/science.1179118.
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Dougherty, M.K., Esposito, L. W. and Krimigis, S.M., Eds. 2009. Saturn from Cassini-Huygens. Dordrecht, Netherlands: SpringerVerlag.
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Dougherty, M.K., Esposito, L. W. and Krimigis, S.M., Eds. 2009. Overview. In Saturn from Cassini-Huygens. M. Dougherty et al. Eds.
pp.1-8. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer-Verlag.
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Dzhanoev, A.R., A. Loskutov , J. E. Howard , and M. A. F. Sanjuan. 2009. Chaos stabilization in the three body problem. A chapter in
Recent Progress in Controlling Chaos, eds. M.A.F. Sanjuan and C. Grebogi. World Scientific Review.
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Esposito, L.W., A.R. Hendrix, Eds. 2010. Introduction to Special Issue. Saturn’s Rings and Icy Satellites from Cassini, Icarus. 206, 381
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UVIS: Publications - 2010
…2010 publications continued:
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Flasar, F. M., K. H. Baines, M. K. Bird, T. Tokano and R. A. West. 2009. Atmospheric Dynamics and Meteorology. A chapter in the book
Titan from Cassini Huygens. R. Brown et al. Eds. 13, 323-352. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer-Verlag.
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Hansen, C. J. ,H. Waite, S. Bolton. Titan in the Cassini-Huygens Extended Mission. 2009. A chapter in the book Titan from Cassini
Huygens. R.H. Brown et al. Eds. 17, 455-478. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer-Verlag.
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Hendrix, A. R. Hansen, C.J., Holsclaw, G. M. 2010. The Ultraviolet Reflectance of Enceladus: Implications for Surface Composition.
Icarus. 206, 608-617
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Jaumann, R., R. Clark, Fr. Nimmo , A. Hendrix, B. Buratti, T. Denk, J. Moore, P. Schenk, S.Ostro and R.Srama. 2009. Icy Satellites:
Geological Evolution and Surface Processes. A chapter in the book Saturn From Cassini-Huygens. M. Dougherty et al. Eds. 20, 637-681.
Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer-Verlag.
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Jaumann R., R. L. Kirk, R. D. Lorenz, R. M.C. Lopes, E. Stofan, E. P. Turtle, H. U. Keller, C. A. Wood, C. Sotin, L. A. Soderblom and M.
G. Tomasko. 2009. Geology and Surface Processes on Titan. A chapter in the book Titan from Cassini Huygens. R.H. Brown et al. Eds.
5, 75-140. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer-Verlag.
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Kurth, W.S., E.J. Bunce, J.T. Clarke, F.J. Crary, D.C. Grodent, A.P. Ingersoll, U.A. Dyudina, L. Lamy, D.G.Mitchell, A.M. Persoon,W.R.
Pryor, J. Saur, and T. Stallard. 2009. Auroral Processes. A chapter in the book Saturn From Cassini-Huygens. M. Dougherty et al. Eds.
12, 333-374. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer-Verlag.
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Liu, X. P. V. Johnson, C. P. Malone, J. A. Young, D. E. Shemansky, and I. Kanik, 2009, Electron impact excitation and emission cross
section of the B1S and D 1Pu states and rotational dependence of photodissociation cross sections of the B1S and D 1Pu continua, J.
Phys. B, 42, 18520.
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Mauk, B.H., J. Cuzzi, D. Hamilton, T. Hill, G. Hospodarsky, R. Johnson, C. Paranicas, E. Roussos, C. Russell, D. Shemansky, E.
Sittler,R. Thorne. 2009. Fundamental Plasma Processes in Saturnﾕs Magnetosphere. A chapter in the book Saturn From CassiniHuygens. M. Dougherty et al. Eds. 11, 281-331. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer-Verlag.
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McGrath, M., C. J. Hansen, A. R. Hendrix. Observations of Europa’s tenuous atmosphere. 2009. Europa. eds. R. Pappalardo, W.
McKinnon, and K. Khurana, University of Arizona Press Space Science Series.
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UVIS: Publications - 2010
…2010 publications continued:
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Melin, H., D. E. Shemansky, and X. Liu, 2009, The distribution of hydrogen and atomic oxygen in the magetosphere of Saturn, Planet.
Space Sci., 57, 1743 (Published Dec. 2009)
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Nagy, Andrew F., A. J. Kliore, M. Mendillo, S. Miller, L. Moore, J. I. Moses, I. Muller-Wodarg, D. Shemansky. 2009. Upper Atmosphere
and Ionosphere of Saturn. A chapter in the book Saturn From Cassini-Huygens. M. Dougherty et al. Eds. 8, 181-201. Dordrecht,
Netherlands: Springer-Verlag.
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Robbins, S.J., Stewart, G.R., Lewis, M.C., Colwell, J.E., and M. Sremčević. 2010. Estimating the Masses of Saturn's A and B Rings from
High-Optical Depth N-Body Simulations and Stellar Occultations. Icarus. 206, 431-445.
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Shemansky, D. E., X. Liu, and H. Melin, 2009, The Saturn Hydrogen Plume, Planet. Space Sci., 57, 1659
doi:10.1016/j.pss.2009.05.002. (Published Dec. 2009)
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Sittler, E., C. Bertucci, A. Coates, T. Cravens, I. Dandouras, and D. Shemansky. 2009. Energy deposition processes in Titan's upper
atmosphere and Its Induced Magnetosphere. A chapter in the book Titan from Cassini Huygens. R.H. Brown et al. Eds. 16, 393-453.
Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer-Verlag.
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Spencer, J.R., A. C. Barr, L.W. Esposito, P. Helfenstein, A.P. Ingersoll, R. Jaumann, C.P. McKay, F. Nimmo, C.C. Porco, J.H. Waite.
2009. Enceladus: An Active Cryovolcanic Satellite. A chapter in the book Saturn From Cassini-Huygens. M. Dougherty et al. Eds. 21,
683-724. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer-Verlag.
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Tomasko, M. G., and R. A. West. Aerosols in Titan's Atmosphere. 2009. A chapter in the book Titan from Cassini Huygens. R. Brown et
al. Eds. 12, 297-321. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer-Verlag.
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West, R. A., K. H. Baines, E. Karkoschka and A. Sanchez-Lavega. 2009. Clouds and Aerosols in Saturn's Atmopsphere. A chapter in the
book Saturn From Cassini-Huygens. M. Dougherty et al. Eds. 7, 161-179. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer-Verlag.
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UVIS: Publications (In Press)
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Esposito, L.W. 2010. Composition, Structure, Dynamics and Evolution of Saturn’s rings. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences
(In Press Jan. 2010, Review in Advance online March 2010)
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Hendrix, A.R. and C. J. Hansen. 2010. The Surface Composition of Enceladus: Clues from the Ultraviolet. Proceedings book of the IAU
Symposium 263 (In press Dec. 2009)
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Liu, X., D. E. Shemansky, P. V. Johnson, C. P. Malone, H. Melin, J. A. Young, and I. Kanik. 2010. The Saturn hot atomic hydrogen
plume: Quantum mechanical investigation of H2 dissociation mechanisms. Planetary Science volume 20 of the Advance in Geophysics.
Eds. A. Bhardwaj, S. A. Haider, R. Wu, P. Hartogh and T. Ito (World Scientific). (In press Dec,, 2009)
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UVIS: Publications (Submitted)
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Ajello, J.M., R.S. Mangina, R.R. Meier. 2010. UV Molecular Spectroscopy from Electron Impact for Applications to Planetary
Atmospheres and Astrophysics. Eds., Y. Hatano, Y. Katsumura, and A. Mozumder, In Charged Particle and Photon Interactions with
Matter, Recent Advances, Applications, and Interfaces, Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton. (Submitted August 2009)
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Albers, N, M. Sremcevic, J.E. Colwell, and L.W. Esposito. 2009. Saturn’s F Ring as seen by Cassini UVIS: Kinematics and Statistics.
Icarus. (Submitted February, 2009)
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Elliott, J.P. and L.W. Esposito. 2010. Regolith Depth Growth on an Icy Body Orbiting Saturn and Evolution of Bidirectional Reflectance
due to Surface Composition Changes. Icarus. (Submitted Oct. 27, 2009, after submission of Q4 2009 quarterly.)
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Esposito, L.W.E., Albers, N., Meinke, B.K., Sremcevic, M., Colwell, J.E. 2010. Moon-triggered Clumping in Saturn’s Rings. Icarus.
(Submitted October 2, 2009)
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Gustin, J, J.M. Ajello, M.H. Stevens, A.W. Stephan, I. Stewart, K. Larsen, L.W. Esposito, W. McClintock. 2010. Titan Airglow Spectra
from Cassini UVIS: III. FUV Limb Analysis. GRL (Submitted August 2009)
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Gustin, J., I. Stewart, J-C. Gerard, L.W. Esposito. 2010. Characteristics of Saturn’s FUV airglow from limb viewing spectra obtained with
Cassini-UVIS. Icarus. (Submitted around Dec. 3, 2009)
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Hedelt, P., Ito, Y., Keller, H.U., Lammer, H., Rauer, H., Reulke, R., Wurz, P., Esposito, L. 2009. Titan’s hydrogen corona. Icarus.
(Submitted 11/13/09)
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Howard, J.E. 2009. Stability of Hamiltonian Equilibria. Scholarpedia. No printed copy, just online.
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Howard. J. E. and J. D. Meiss. 2009. Straight-Line Orbits in Hamiltonian Flows. Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy.
(submitted in March, 2009)
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Hubert, B., J. C. Gerard, J. Gustin, V. I. Shematovich, D. V. Bisikalo, A. I. Stewart and G.R. Gladstone. 2010 Cassini-UVIS observations
of the FUV OI and CO Venus dayglow. Icarus. (submitted May 2009, found out in Oct.)
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Liang, M. C., A. S. Wong, D. Henze, M. Adamkovics, K. Boering and Y. L.Yung. 2009. Synergistic study of hydrocarbon photochemistry
in laboratory and planetary atmospheres. Planet. Space. Sci., (Submitted Sept. 2008)
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Liang, M-C. and Y. L. Yung. 2009. Isotopic fractionation of trace molecules in the atmosphere of Titan. ApJ (Submitted in June 2009)
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UVIS: Publications (Submitted - Cont.)
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Liu, X., P. V. Johnson, C. P. Malone, J. A. Young, I. Kanik, and D. E. Shemansky. 2010. Kinetic energy distribution of H(1s) from the H2
X 1 - a 3 excitation by electron impact and lifetimes and transition probabilities of the a 3(v,J) states, Astrophys. J. (Submitted
February 2010)
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Stevens, M.H., J. Gustin, J.M. Ajello, J.S. Evans, R.R. Meier, A.W. Stephan, A.I.F. Stewart, K. Larsen, L.W. Esposito, W.E. McClintock.
2010. The Production of Titan’s Far Ultraviolet Nitrogen Airglow. GRL. (Submitted March 2010)
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Shemansky, D. E., and X. Liu, 2009, Saturn Upper Atmospheric Structure from Cassini EUV/FUV Occulations, Planet. Space Sci.,
(Submitted November, 2008)
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Zhang X., Ajello, J.M., and Yung, Y.L.,. 2009. Atomic carbon in the upper atmosphere of Titan. Astrophysical Journal Letters .
(Submitted Sept. 2009)
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UVIS: Science Presentations - Q2-2010 (Feb - Apr, 2010)
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Astronomy Colloquium, 18 March, 2010, UMASS-Amherst, MA
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Esposito, L.W. “Boom and Bust Cycles in Saturn’s Rings“
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UVIS: Outreach - Q2-2010 (Feb - Apr, 2010)
• #: EPO: Talks to school children, teachers and public
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Colwell: “Running Rings Around Saturn: The Cassini Mission.“ Brevard Community College Space Science
Lecture, BCC Planetarium, Cocoa FL, February 12, 2010. 120 people in attendance.
– Hendrix: “Cassini Explores Saturn's Icy Moons“ U. Michigan, April 15
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Hendrix: “Cassini visits the Moons of Saturn“ Albion College, Michigan, April 16
• #: Press releases
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None this quarter
• #: Press conferences & interviews
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Esposito: “Saturn’s Rings Sruprisingly Unstable, Violent“, National Geographic, 18 March, 2010
Esposito: “Mystery of Saturn’s Rings“, Space News, 6 April, 2010
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