Evolution of small icy-silicate bodies 2008
A workshop on the theme "Icy Satellite and Small Body Evolution"
was hosted at the Bear Fight Center, 18-20 February 2008.
Bear Fight Center scientists were joined by
scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and UCLA. The
workshop focussed on not only analysis and modelling of data from the
Cassini spacecraft, currently orbiting Saturn, but also looked
forward to data that the NASA DAWN mission will return from the
asteroids Ceres and Vesta. A wide range of topics were covered,
including: the role played by both short and long-lived radionuclides
in icy satellite and asteroid evolution; the evolving chemistry of
satellite oceans; projects deemed necessary to aid interpretation of
DAWN data; the interaction of water and hot silicates in planetary
mantles; and the modelling of cryovolcanic processes.
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