5th Workshop on Catastrophic Disruption in the Solar System


                                  PROGRAM
         
WEDNESDAY, July 1st: 

Session 1: Asteroid Families: (Chair: D. Durda)

9:00am              Organizing Committee: "Opening Address"
9:20am              A. Cellino     "Asteroid Families" (Invited)
10:00am             D. Davis, F. Marzari, and P. Farinella  "Birth, Evolution
                       and Death of Asteroid Families"
10:20am             S. Bus  "Testing the Validity of Asteroid Families between
                       2.69 and 2.82 AU: Results from SMASS II"
10:40am             V. Zappala  "On the Size Distribution of Asteroid Families:
                       The Role of Geometry"
11:00am             P. Michel The Velocity-Size Relationship for Members of 
                       Asteroid Families and Implications for the Physics of 
                       Catastrophic Collisions"
11:20am             R. Binzel "The Observed Distribution of the Vesta Family" 
11:40am             Z. Knezevic "Is the chaotic clock ticking correctly? 
                       (Dynamics of Veritas Family)"

12:00 - 1:30pm       LUNCH

POSTERS:
P. Paolicchi    "Puzzling Families: Velocity and Other Problems"
M. Barucci, A. Doressoundiram, E. Dotto, M. Florczak  "Spectroscopic
                Observations of Asteroid Families"

Session 2: Impact Experiments (Chair: E. Ryan)

1:30pm             I. Giblin, P. Farinella, J-M. Petit, D. Davis, M. Di Martino
                      "Fragments from Impacts: Better Data, New Data"
1:50pm             K. Housen  "Subscale Experiments of Large-Scale Collisions"
2:10pm             N. Onose  "Morphological Problem of Impact Features on
                      Finite Bodies"
2:30pm             E. Ryan, D. Davis, and I. Giblin  "Impact Studies and
                      "Numerical Modeling of Simulated Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt
                      Objects"
2:50pm             M. Arakawa  "Collisional Disruption of Ice by High Velocity
                      Impact"
3:10pm             G. Flynn and D. Durda  "Impact Experiments on a Porous,
                      Inhomogeneous Target" 
3:30pm             S. Stewart and T. Ahrens  "Evolution of Circumstellar Dust 
		      Disks: A Collisional Model and New Experimental 
		      Approaches"
3:50pm             T. Ahrens, S. Stewart, J. Faust, and F. Horz "Initial 
		      Ejecta Studies for Impacts into Low Temperature Ice"

4:10pm             General Poster Viewing

POSTERS:

G. Flynn, W. Klock, and L. Moore   "Densities of Stone Meteorites and 
Implications for the Porosity of Asteroids"

THURSDAY, July 2nd:

Session 3: Code Modeling & Rules for Impact Scaling (Chair: E. Asphaug) 

9:00am              K. Holsapple  "The Scaling of Catastrophic Disruptions: 
                       A Review and Outstanding Issues" (Invited)
9:40am              W. Benz  "Catastrophic Disruptions Revisited (Invited)
10:20am             P. Farinella, D. Davis, F. Marzari  "Why We are not
                       Hydrocode Believers(Yet)"
10:40am             E. Asphaug  "Perils of Impact Modeling"

11:00am             Workshop Discussion: "Models and Scaling Relations"

11:40am             General Poster Viewing 

12:00 - 1:30pm       LUNCH

1:30pm              D. Durda  "Collisional Models and Scaling Laws: A New
                       Interpretation of the Shape of the Main-Belt Asteroid
                       Size Distribution"
1:50pm              K. Holsapple  "Distributed Point Methods: A New Approach for
                       the Calculation of Impacts.
2:10pm              N. Mitani  "Numerical Simulations of Shock Wave Propagation"

Session 4: Impact Signatures: Evidence from Real Bodies (Chair: Ian Giblin)

2:30pm              A. Stern  "Signatures of Catastrophic Collisions in the
                       Kuiper Belt" (Invited)
3:10pm              C. Chapman  "Thoughts about Mathilde's Giant Craters" 
                      (Invited)
3:50pm              P. Thomas  "Flirting with Disaster: Nearly Catastrophic 
                       Impacts on Vesta, Mathilde, and Deimos"
4:10pm              J-M. Petit, I. Giblin, and P. Farinella  "Formation of
		       Dactyl from Rotational Bursting"

FRIDAY, July 3rd:

Session 5: Tidal Disruption (Chair: W. Bottke)

9:00am              W. Bottke, D. Richardson, S. G. Love  "Tidal Distortion and
                       Disruption of Rubble-Pile Asteroids: Evidence and
                       Applications"
9:30am              T. Rettig and J. Hahn "Tidal Disruption of Strengthless
                       Rubble Piles-- A Timescale Analysis"

POSTERS:
D. Richardson, W. Bottke, S. Love  "Tidal Distortion and Disruption of Rubble-
                                    Pile Asteroids: Method and Results"

Session 6. Asteroid Observations (Chairs: W. Bottke and I. Giblin)

9:50am              M. Fulchignoni and A. Rossi "Study of the Environment 
		       Around the Rosetta Candidate Target Asteroids"
10:10am             D. Rabinowitz, E. Helin, K. Lawrence, S. Pravdo  "A Wiggle
                       in the Size Distribution of the Earth-approaching 
                       Asteroids: NEAT Confirmation"
10:40am             L. A. M. Benner, R. S. Hudson, S. J. Ostro, K. D. Rosema,
		    J. D.  Giorgini, D. K. Yeomans, R. F. Jurgens, D. L.
                    Mitchell, R. Winkler, R.  Rose, M. A. Slade, M. L. Thomas,
		    and P. Pravec "Radar observations of asteroids 2063 Bacchus
        	     	and 1998 KY26"
11:10am             D. Asher, M. Yoshikawa, & S. Isobe  "Approach Directions of 
                       Colliding Asteroids"

POSTERS:

A. Rivkin & E. Howell   "Hydrated M-class Asteroids"
Y. Takagi, Y. Ishibashi, and M. Abe    "MUSES-C Mission and Photometric
  Observation of (4660)Nereus; A Candidate of the Mission Target"
S. Isobe               "NEO and Debris Detection"

Session 7. DISCUSSION: Future Directions 11:30am - 12:00pm 
(Chairs: Organizing/Program Committee)

12:00pm      Meeting Close


Donald R. Davis   Alan Harris   
Paolo Farinella   Mark Sykes  

Program Committee: Erik Asphaug, Bill Bottke, Dan
Durda, Ian Giblin, Eileen Ryan, and Akiko Nakamura. 
    

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