VII WORKSHOP ON CATASTROPHIC DISRUPTION
IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM (CD07)

Alicante, Spain     June 26-29, 2007


SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM


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MONDAY JUNE 25, 2007

 
19:00 - 21:00 Registration and welcoming cocktail at the Hotel Spa Porta Maris (Salon Terramar)
 

TUESDAY JUNE 26, 2007

 
8:30 - 9:15 Registration
 
9:15 - 9:30 Welcoming from the LOC and last-minute tips
 
9:30 - 13:30 Session I. Fragmenation: Experiments
 
A. Nakamura (IR)  Laboratory Impact Disruption Experiments - Towards Understanding the Impact Process of Porous Bodies  (Abstract)
 
K. Hiraoka and A. Nakamura  Crush Curve Measurements of Porous Materials used for Laboratory Impact Experiments  (Abstract)
 
F. Ferri et al.  Hypervelocity Impact Experiments to Study Craterization and Catastrophic Fragmentation of Minor Bodies in the Solar System  (Abstract)
 
11:05 - 11:30 Coffee Break
 
G. J. Flynn and D. D. Durda  Disruption Experiments on Hydrous Meteorites  (Abstract)
 
M. Burchell and A. Lightwing  Catastrophic Disruption on Core-Mantle Mixed Ice-Silicate Targets in the Laboratory  (Abstract)
 
C. Okamoto and M. Arakawa  Experimental Study on Collisional Disruption of Core-Mantle Bodies  (Abstract)
 
M. A. Satorre Aznar et al.  Sublimation Temperatures of Ices Related with Catastrophic Events  (Abstract)
 
Open discussion until 13:30
 
13:30 - 16:00 Lunch Break
 
16:00 - 19:45 Session II. Fragmentation: Theoretical studies and numerical models
 
K. A. Holsapple (IR)  On the "Strength" of Small Bodies of the Solar System  (Abstract)
 
K. Housen  Collisional Damage of Rocky Asteroids  (Abstract)
 
D. J. Scheeres  Minimum Energy Catastrophic Disruptions  (Abstract)
 
17:35 - 18:00 Coffee break
 
W. Benz and M. Jutzi (IR)  Collision and Impact Simulations including Porosity  (Abstract)
 
M. Jutzi and W. Benz  Simulations of the LCROSS Impact using Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)  (Abstract)
 
R. Jedicke  Detecting Main Belt Asteroid Collisions in Real-time with PAN-STARRS  (Abstract)
 
Open discussion until 19:45
 
21:00 Welcoming reception cocktail at "Casino de Alicante" (Offered by the Alicante City Hall)
 

WEDNESDAY JUNE 27, 2007

 
9:00 - 12:30 Session III. Small Bodies: Families
 
A. Cellino and A. Dell'Oro (IR)  Asteroid Families  (Abstract)
 
S. J. Bus  A Search for Spectro-Dynamical Asteroid Families  (Abstract)
 
W. Ryan and E. Ryan  Shapes and Multiplicities of Vesta Family Asteroids: Implications for their Collisional Origin  (Abstract)
 
10:35 - 11:00 Coffee Break
 
W. F. Bottke et al.  An Asteroid Shower over the Cretaceous Period  (Abstract)
 
J. Leliwa-Kopystynski and I. Wlodarczyk  Asteroid Families: Statistical Identification of New Families and Determination of Size Distributions of Families' Members  (Abstract)
 
R. Gil-Hutton et al.  What the Sloan Digital Sky Survey can say about the Jupiter Trojans?  (Abstract)
 
R. Duffard et al.  Two New Basaltic Objects in the Outer Main Belt  (Abstract)
 
Open discussion until 12:30
 
13:30 Departure for lunch at Tabarca
 
Free Afternoon
 

THURSDAY JUNE 28, 2007

(At the Escuela Politecnica Superior, Universidad de Alicante)
 
9:00 Shuttle bus to the University of Alicante
 
9:30 - 13:30 Session IV. Surfaces and Interiors: Clues from Observations
 
E. Asphaug (IR)  Asteroid Interiors  (Abstract)
 
E. S. Howell et al.  Observations of the Fragmented Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3  (Abstract)
 
F. Marchis et al.  Mutual Orbit, Bulk Density and Formation Scenario of Visualised Multiple Asteroids  (Abstract)
 
11:05 - 11:30 Coffee Break
 
A. F. Cheng (IR)  Fundamentally Distinct Outcomes of Asteroid Collisional Evolution: Itokawa and Eros  (Abstract)
 
D. P. O'Brien et al.  Interpreting Itokawa's Cratering Record  (Abstract)
 
M. C. Nolan et al. / L. A. M. Benner et al.  Near-Earth Asteroid 1999 RQ36  (Abstract) / Radar Images of Binary Near-Earth Asteroid 2006 VV2  (Abstract)
 
Open discussion until 13:30
 
13:30 - 15:30 Lunch Break (Offered by the Universidad de Alicante)
 
16:00 - 19:45 Session V. Internal Structure: Meteorites, Numerical Models
 
G. Consolmagno and D. T. Britt (IR)  Porosity and Internal Composition of Asteroids  (Abstract)
 
J. M. Trigo-Rodriguez  Physical Properties of Primitive Asteroids  (Abstract)
 
A. C. Levasseur-Regourd et al.  Approaching the Internal Structure of the Nuclei of Comets  (Abstract)
 
17:05 - 17:30 Coffee break
 
D. C. Richardson et al. (IR)  N-Body Models of Aggregation and Disruption  (Abstract)
 
P. Tanga et al.  Asteroid Rotation and Shape: Gravitational Aggregate Simulations  (Abstract)
 
P. Michel and D. C. Richardson  Catastrophic Disruption of Asteroids: First Simulations with Explicit Formation of Spinning Aggregates by Gravitational Reaccumulation  (Abstract)
 
Open discussion until 19:30
 
At the end of session, return to Hotel Spa Porta Maris
 
21:30 CD07 Workshop Dinner
 

FRIDAY JUNE 29, 2007

 
9:30 - 13:30 Session VI. Rotation, Collisional Evolution, and Dust
 
P. Pravec and A. W. Harris (IR)  Asteroid Rotations and Binaries  (Abstract)
 
J. Masiero et al.  The Thousand Asteroid Light Curve Survey - Preliminary Results  (Abstract)
 
P. Weissman  Rotational Disruption of Cometary Nuclei  (Abstract)
 
M. Delbo  Thermal Inertia of Near-Earth Asteroids and Implications for the Strength of the Yarkovsky and YORP Effects  (Abstract)
 
11:10 - 11:30 Coffee Break
 
D. P. O'Brien et al. (IR)  The Collisional Evolution of Small Bodies in the Solar System  (Abstract)
 
P. G. Benavidez and A. Campo Bagatin  Abundances of Gravitational Aggregates in Trans-Neptunian Populations  (Abstract)
 
T. Kehoe et al. / A. Espy et al.  Evolution of Dust Particles Ejected by Catastrophic Asteroidal Disruptions  (Abstract) / A Newly Identified Solar System Dust Band  (Abstract)
 
Open discussion until 13:30
 
13:30 - 16:00 Lunch Break
 
16:00 - 18:00 Session VII. Effects of Collisions
 
P. Paolicchi et al.  Collisional De-weathering of Asteroids?  (Abstract)
 
E. M. Pittich and N. A. Solovaya  Possible Collisions of TNOs with Small Bodies on High Eccentricity Orbits  (Abstract)
 
T. Terai et al.  A Search for Small Asteroids in the COSMOS Field  (Abstract)
 
D. R. Davis (IR)  Workshop Summary  (Abstract)
 
Final discussion and closing event until 18:00
 
Public Presenataions at S. E. U. (The University Centre in Alicante)
 
20:00 M. A. Perez Oca  Personajes e ideas en la Revolucin Copernicana
 
21:00 L. Benner  Observando asteroides cercanos a la Tierra
 
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