HIGP Planetary Seminars: Spring 2009

Planetary Data Center, POST 544

Wednesdays at 2 pm

 

 

Date

Speaker

Title

Jan 14

Norbert Schšrghofer (IfA)

The Lifetime of Ice on Main Belt Asteroids

Jan 21

Jeff Taylor (HIGP)

Lunar bulk composition and inferences from processes in the proto-lunar disk

Jan 28

Klaus Keil (HIGP)

Celebrating 40 years of energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry in electron probe microanalysis

Feb 4

David Jewitt (IfA)

Ice in the Asteroid Belt

Feb 11

Brett Gladman (Univ. British Columbia)

Mercurian Impact Ejecta: Meteorites and Mantle

Feb 18

 

Lydie Bonal (HIGP)

Highly 15N-enriched chondritic clasts in the Isheyevo meteorite

Feb 25

Miriam Riner (HIGP)

Nature of opaque components on Mercury: Evidence of a low-FeO magma ocean

Mar 4

Greg Ravizza (G & G)

The flux of extraterrestrial matter to the Earth inferred from marine sediments: Why should we care?

Mar 11

Fernando Rull (Center for Astrobiology, Univ. Valladolid, Spain)

Raman Spectroscopy Concept for ESAÕs Exo-Mars Mission and Field Characterization of Minerals at Mars Analog Sites

Mar 18

Deon van Niekerk (HIGP)

The 32nd Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) - A travelogue

Mar 25

Spring recess; LPS Conf.

 

April 1

 

 

April 8

Sasha Krot (HIGP)

Round-table discussion of the highlights of the 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference

April 15

William Koeppen (HIGP)

Global automated detection of thermal anomalies using MODIS: Measuring excess energy from Anathan, Kilauea, and gas flares in the Gulf of Mexico

April 22

Julia Hammer (G & G)

Petrographic geospeedometry and the late-stage magmatic history of Martian meteorite MIL03346

April 29

Pavel Zinin  (HIGP)

Direct measurements of the elastic properties of iron rich minerals under high pressure - implications for the composition of the EarthÕs Interior

May 6

Lionel Wilson (Lancaster University, UK)

Metamorphic history of differentiated asteroids

May 13

No seminar

 

May 20

No seminar

 

May 27

Eric Gaidos (G & G)

Snowflakes, snow lines, and snowballs:  what do we know about the delivery of water to terrestrial planets?