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| A workshop/symposium was hosted at the Bear Fight Center Wednesday and Thursday, February 15, 16. The topic was "Evolution of small icy-silicate bodies." Ten scientists attended, including from JPL, U. of Colorado, Arizona State U., UC Santa Cruz, Stanford U., U. of Wash. and SSI NW. The purpose was to survey the state of the art and define future efforts in modeling and understand the thermodynamic evolution of small bodies in the outer solar system, beginning with the protoplanets Ceres, Vesta and Pallas, through the Galilean Satellites, and emphasizing the Saturn Satellites. This was stimulated by the recent expansion of knowledge from the Cassini Mission and recent discoveries concerning Ceres. Topics included the accretion process, the first few million years, short- and long-lived radionuclides, thermal modeling, differentiation, solid state convection, despinning and current observations. | ||
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