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NASA NTRS2004

Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV: Engaging K-12 Educators, Students, and the General Public in Space Science Exploration

The session "Engaging K-12 Educators, Students, and the General Public in Space Science Exploration" included the following reports:Training Informal Educators Provides Leverage for Space Science Education and Public Outreach; Teacher Leaders in Research Based Science Education: K-12 Teacher Retention, Renewal, and Involvement in Professional Science; Telling the Tale of Two Deserts: Teacher Training and Utilization of a New Standards-based, Bilingual E/PO Product; Lindstrom M. M. Tobola K. W. Stocco K. Henry M. Allen J. S. McReynolds J. Porter T. T. Veile J. Space Rocks Tell Their Secrets: Space Science Applications of Physics and Chemistry for High School and College Classes -- Update; Utilizing Mars Data in Education: Delivering Standards-based Content by Exposing Educators and Students to Authentic Scientific Opportunities and Curriculum; K. E. Little Elementary School and the Young Astronaut Robotics Program; Integrated Solar System Exploration Education and Public Outreach: Theme, Products and Activities; and Online Access to the NEAR Image Collection: A Resource for Educators and Scientists.

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Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV: Impacts: Observations and Experiments

The title in this section include: 1) Impactites of the Haughton Impact Structure, Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada; 2) Geochemical Characteristics of Impactites from the Yaxcopoil-1 ICDP Drill Core, Chicxulub Impact Structure, Mexico; 3) Investigation of the Ries Impact Crater Based upon Old and New Geophysical Data and Numerical Modeling; 4) Potential of Radar Imaging and Sounding Methods in Mapping Heavily Eroded Impact Craters: Mapping Some Structural Elements of the Hico Crater, TX; 5) From Simple to Complex Craters: The Mechanics of Late-time Crater Adjustments; 6) Impact Structures: What Does Crater Diameter Mean? 7) Early-Time Temperature Evolution of the Impact Flash and Beyond; 8) Probing Impact-Generated Vapor Plumes; 9) Non-Ballistic Vapor-Driven Ejecta; 10) Depth and Diameter of Transient Craters; 11) A Plausibility of Z-Model; 12) Experiments with Explosives and Ordnance Disposal Devices for the Simulation of Specific Processes During Shallow-Marine Impacts; 13) Collisional Fragmentation of Rotating Bodies.

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Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV: Achondrites: An Awesome Assortment

The session "chondrites: An Awesome Assortment" included the following reports:Nucleation of the Widmanstatten Pattern in Iron Meteorites; Compositions of the Group IVB Iron Meteorites; Sm-Nd Age and Initial 87Sr/86Sr for Yamato 980318: An Old Cumulate Eucrite; Petrology of New Stannern-trend Eucrites and Eucrite Genesis; The Dichotomous HED Meteorite Suite; Early Thermal Evolution of HED Parent Body; Thermal History of the Lodranite Yamato 74357: Constraints from Compositional Zoning and Fe-Mg Ordering; Late Thermal Evolution of Acapulcoites-Lodranites Parent Body: Evidence from Sm-Nd Isotopes and Trace Elements of the LEW 86220 Acapulcoite; Partial Melting Under Reducing Conditions: How are Primitive Achondrites Formed?; Evolution of the Ureilite Parent Body; Complex, Contrasting Behavior of Chromium During Late-Stage Processes in Ureilites; Sahara 99555 and D Orbigny: Possible Pristine Parent Magma of Quenched Angrites; and Devolatilized-Allende Partial Melts as an Analog for Primitive Angrite Magmas.

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Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV: Lunar Crust as Sampled by Basins and Craters

The session "Lunar Crust as Samples by Basins and Craters" included:Radar Properties of Lunar Basin Deposits; Numerical Modeling of the South Pole-Aitkin Impact; Lunar South Pole-Aitken Impact Basin: Topography and Mineralogy; Comparison of the Geologic Setting of the South Pole-Aitken Basin Interior with Apollo 16: Implications for Regolith Components; Identifying Impact Events Within the Lunar Cataclysm from 40Ar-39Ar Ages of Apollo 16 Impact Melt Rocks; Apollo 16 Mafic Glass: Geochemistry, Provenance, and Implications; Lunar Meteorite PCA 02 007: A Feldspathic Regolith Breccia with Mixed Mare/Highland Components; Compositional Constraints on the Launch Pairing of LAP 02205 and PCA 02007 with Other Lunar Meteorites; An In-Situ Study of REE Abundances in Three Anorthositic Impact Melt Lunar Highland Meteorites; A Crustal Rock Clast in Magnesian Anorthositic Breccia, Dhofar 489 and Its Excavation from a Large Basin; The Origin and Impact History of Lunar Meteorite Yamato 86032; Evolved Lithologies and Their Inferred Sources in the Northwestern Procellarum Region of the Moon; and Revisiting the Interpretation of Thorium Abundances at Hansteen Alpha.

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Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV: Viewing the Lunar Interior Through Titanium-Colored Glasses

The session"Viewing the Lunar Interior Through Titanium-Colored Glasses" included the following reports:Consequences of High Crystallinity for the Evolution of the Lunar Magma Ocean: Trapped Plagioclase; Low Abundances of Highly Siderophile Elements in the Lunar Mantle: Evidence for Prolonged Late Accretion; Fast Anorthite Dissolution Rates in Lunar Picritic Melts: Petrologic Implications; Searching the Moon for Aluminous Mare Basalts Using Compositional Remote-Sensing Constraints II: Detailed analysis of ROIs; Origin of Lunar High Titanium Ultramafic Glasses: A Hybridized Source?; Ilmenite Solubility in Lunar Basalts as a Function of Temperature and Pressure: Implications for Petrogenesis; Garnet in the Lunar Mantle: Further Evidence from Volcanic Glasses; Preliminary High Pressure Phase Relations of Apollo 15 Green C Glass: Assessment of the Role of Garnet; Oxygen Fugacity of Mare Basalts and the Lunar Mantle. Application of a New Microscale Oxybarometer Based on the Valence State of Vanadium; A Model for the Origin of the Dark Ring at Orientale Basin; Petrology and Geochemistry of LAP 02 205: A New Low-Ti Mare-Basalt Meteorite; Thorium and Samarium in Lunar Pyroclastic Glasses: Insights into the Composition of the Lunar Mantle and Basaltic Magmatism on the Moon; and Eu2+ and REE3+ Diffusion in Enstatite, Diopside, Anorthite, and a Silicate Melt: A Database for Understanding Kinetic Fractionation of REE in the Lunar Mantle and Crust.

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Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV: Mars: Gullies, Fluids, and Rocks

The session "Mars: Gullies, Fluids, and Rocks" included the following reports:Gullies on Mars and Constraints Imposed by Mars Global Surveyor Data; Gullies on Mars: Origin by Snow and Ice Melting and Potential for Life Based on Possible Analogs from Devon Island, High Arctic; Formation of Recent Martian Gullies by Avalanches of CO2 Frost; Martian Slope Streaks and Gullies: Origins as Dry Granular Flows; Depths and Geologic Setting of Northern Hemisphere Gullies (and Comparison to Their Southern Counterparts); Mars as a Salt-, Acid-, and Gas-Hydrate World; Composition of Simulated Martian Brines and Implications for the Origin of Martian Salts; Evaporation Rates of Brine on Mars; Hydrogeology of the Valles Marineris-Chaotic Terrain Transition Zone, Mars; Measured Fluid Flow in an Active H2O-CO2 Geothermal Well as an Analog to Fluid Flow in Fractures on Mars: Preliminary Report; Understanding Rock Breakdown on Earth and Mars: Geomorphological Concepts and Facet Mapping Methods; Classification and Distribution of Mars Pathfinder Rocks Using Quantitative Morphologic Indices; and Systematic Rock Classification in a Data-poor Environment: Application to Mars.

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Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV: Mars Geophysics

The titles in this section include: 1) An Extraordinary Magnetic Field Map of Mars; 2) Mapping Weak Crustal Magnetic Fields on Mars with Electron Reflectometry; 3) Analytic Signal in the Interpretation of Mars Southern Highlands Magnetic Field; 4) Modeling of Major Martian Magnetic Anomalies: Further Evidence for Polar Reorientations During the Noachian; 5) An Improved Model of the Crustal Structure of Mars; 6) Geologic Evolution of the Martian Dichotomy and Plains Magnetization in the Ismenius Area of Mars; 7) Relaxation of the Martian Crustal Dichotomy Boundary in the Ismenius Region; 8) Localized Tharsis Loading on Mars: Testing the Membrane Surface Hypothesis; 9) Thermal Stresses and Tharsis Loading: Implications for Wrinkle Ridge Formation on Mars; 10) What Can be Learned about the Martian Lithosphere from Gravity and Topography Data? 11) A Gravity Analysis of the Subsurface Structure of the Utopia Impact Basin; 12) Mechanics of Utopia Basin on Mars; 13) Burying the 'Buried Channels' on Mars: An Alternative Explanation.

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Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV: From Ancient Mists: Presolar and Nebular Processes

The session "From Ancient Mists: Presolar and Nebular Processes" included the following reports: Interpretation of the Meteoritic Extinct Radioactivity - Mean Life Relation; On the Issue of Molybdenum Isotopic Anomalies in Meteorites: Is It Still "FUN"?; (26Al/27Al)o of the Solar Nebula Inferred from Al-Mg Systematic in Bulk CAIs from CV3 Chondrites; Magnesium Isotopic Compositions of Igneous CAIs in the CR Carbonaceous Chondrites: Evidence for an Early and Late-stage Melting of CAIs; The 26Al-26Mg Chronology of a Type C CAI and POIs in Ningqiang Carbonaceous Chondrite; Bulk Compositions of CAIs and Al-rich Chondrules: Implications of the Reversal of the Anorthite / Forsterite Condensation Sequence at Low Nebular Pressures; Synthesis of Refractory Minerals by High-Temperature Condensation of a Gas of Solar Composition; Elemental and Isotopic Fractionation by Diffusion-limited Evaporation; "Nonideal" Isotopic Fractionation Behavior of Magnesium in Evaporation Residues; Determination of Primordial Refractory Inclusion Compositions; Zoning Patterns in Spinel from Type B Ca-Al-rich Inclusions: Constraints on Sub-Solidus Thermal History; Radial Migration of Materials from Inner to Outer Solar Nebula: Evidence from Meteorite Matrix; and Refractory Forsterites in Chondritic Meteorites, a Link Between CAIs and Chondrules.

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Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV: Mars Mineralogy: Weathered and Dry

The session "Mars Mineralogy: Weathered and Dry" presented the following reports:Hyperspectral and Field Mapping of an Archaean Komatiite Unit in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: Applications for CRISM Mission; Emission Spectroscopy of Smectites: Implications for the TES Andesite-weathered Basalt Debate; Volcanism and/or Aqueous Alteration on Mars: Constraints on Distinguishing Glass and Phyllosilicate in the Thermal Infrared; Olivine Weathering on Mars: Getting Back to Basics; Sulfate-cemented Soils Detected in TES Data Through the Application of an Automated Band Detection Algorithm; Thermal Emission Spectroscopy of Sulfates: Possible Hydrous Iron-Sulfate in the Soil at the MER-A Gusev Crater Landing Site ; Barite and Celestine Detection in the Thermal Infrared: Possible Application to Determination of Aqueous Environments on Mars; Search for Evaporite Minerals in Flaugergues Basin, Mars; Contributions from Hydrated States of MgSO4 to the Reservoir of Hydrogen at Equatorial Latitudes on Mars; Identification of a Quartz and Na-Feldspar Surface Mineralogy in Syrtis Major; Pigeonite Masquerading as Olivine at Mars: First Results from Mars Spectroscopy Consortium; Green Mars: Geologic Characteristics of Olivine-bearing Terrains as Observed by THEMIS, MOC, and MOLA; and Global Chemical Abundances and Distributions on Mars from MGS-TES Spectra.

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Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV: Mars: Surface Coatings, Mineralogy, and Surface Properties

The session "Mars: Surface Coatings, Mineralogy, and Surface Properties" contained the following reports:High-Silica Rock Coatings: TES Surface-Type 2 and Chemical Weathering on Mars; Old Desert Varnish-like Coatings and Young Breccias at the Mars Pathfinder Landing Site; Analyses of IR-Stealthy and Coated Surface Materials: A Comparison of LIBS and Reflectance Spectra and Their Application to Mars Surface Exploration; Contrasting Interpretations of TES Spectra of the 2003 Rover:Opportunity-Landing Site: Hematite Coatings and Gray Hematite; A New Hematite Formation Mechanism for Mars; Geomorphic and Diagenetic Analogs to Hematite Regions on Mars: Examples from Jurassic Sandstones of Southern Utah, USA; The Geologic Record of Early Mars: A Layered, Cratered, and "Valley-"ed: Volume; A Simple Approach to Estimating Surface Emissivity with THEMIS; A Large Scale Topographic Correction for THEMIS Data; Thermophysical Properties of Meridiani Planum, Mars; Thermophysical and Spectral Properties of Gusev, the MER-Spirit Landing Site on Mars; Determining Water Content of Geologic Materials Using Reflectance Spectroscopy; and Global Mapping of Martian Bound Water at 6.1 Microns Based on TES Data: Seasonal Hydration.

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Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV: Organics and Alteration in Carbonaceous Chondrites: Goop and Crud

The session "Organics and Alteration in Carbonaceous Chondrites: Goop and Crud" included the following reports:Organics on Fe-Silicate Grains: Potential Mimicry of Meteoritic Processes?; Molecular and Compound-Specific Isotopic Study of Monocarboxylic Acids in Murchison and Antarctic Meteorites; Nanoglobules, Macromolecular Materials, and Carbon Sulfides in Carbonaceous Chondrites; Evidence for Terrestrial Organic Contamination of the Tagish Lake Meteorite; Nitrogen Isotopic Imaging of Tagish Lake Carbon Globules; Microscale Distribution of Hydrogen Isotopes in Two Carbonaceous Chondrites; The Nature and Origin of Aromatic Organic Matter in the Tagish Lake Meteorite; Terrestrial Alteration of CM Chondritic Carbonate; Serpentine Nanotubes in CM Chondrites; Experimental Study of Serpentinization Reactions; Chondrule Glass Alteration in Type IIA Chondrules in the CR2 Chondrites EET 87770 and EET 92105: Insights into Elemental Exchange Between Chondrules and Matrices; Aqueous Alteration of Carbonaceous Chondrites: New Insights from Comparative Studies of Two Unbrecciated CM2 Chondrites, Y 791198 and ALH 81002 ;and A Unique Style of Alteration of Iron-Nickel Metal in WIS91600, an Unusual C2 Carbonaceous Chondrite.

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Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV: Special Session: Mars Climate Change

The session "Mars Climate Change" contained the following reports:Geological Evidence for Climate Change on Mars; A New Astronomical Solution for the Long Term Evolution of the Insolation Quantities of Mars; Interpreting Martian Paleoclimate with a Mars General Circulation Model; History and Progress of GCM Simulations on Recent Mars Climate Change; Northern and Southern Permafrost Regions on Mars with High Content of Water Ice: Similarities and Differences; Periods of Active Permafrost Layer Formation in the Recent Geological History of Mars; Microclimate Zones in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica: Implications for Landscape; Evolution and Climate Change on Mars; Geomorphic Evidence for Martian Ground Ice and Climate Change; Explaining the Mid-Latitude Ice Deposits with a General Circulation Model; Tharsis Montes Cold-based Glaciers: Observations and Constraints for Modeling and Preliminary Results; Ice Sheet Modeling: Terrestrial Background and Application to Arsia Mons Lobate Deposit, Mars; Enhanced Water-Equivalent Hydrogen on the Western Flanks of the Tharsis Montes and Olympus Mons: Remnant Subsurface Ice or Hydrate Minerals?; and New Age Mars.

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Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV: Special Session: Mars Climate Change

The session "Mars Climate Change" included the following topics:Geological Evidence for Climate Change on Mars; A New Astronomical Solution for the Long Term Evolution of the Insolation Quantities of Mars; Interpreting Martian Paleoclimate with a Mars General Circulation Model; History and Progress of GCM Simulations on Recent Mars Climate Change; Northern and Southern Permafrost Regions on Mars with High Content of Water Ice: Similarities and Differences; Periods of Active Permafrost Layer Formation in the Recent Geological History of Mars; Microclimate Zones in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica: Implications for Landscape Evolution and Climate Change on Mars; Geomorphic Evidence for Martian Ground Ice and Climate Change; Explaining the Mid-Latitude Ice Deposits with a General Circulation Model; Tharsis Montes Cold-based Glaciers: Observations and Constraints for Modeling and Preliminary Results; Ice Sheet Modeling: Terrestrial Background and Application to Arsia Mons Lobate Deposit, Mars; Enhanced Water-Equivalent Hydrogen on the Western Flanks of the Tharsis Montes and Olympus Mons: Remnant Subsurface Ice or Hydrate Minerals?; and New Age Mars.

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Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV: Mars: Radar, Gamma Ray Spectrometer, and Cratering Mineralogy

The session "Mars: Radar, Gamma Ray Spectrometer, and Cratering Mineralogy" contained the following reports:The Dielectric Properties of Martian Soil Simulant JSC Mars-1 in the Range from 20Hz to 10kHz; Eastern Sahara Geology from Orbital Radar: Potential Analog to Mars On the Dielectric Properties of the Martian-like Surface Sediments; Radar Observations of Recent Mars Landing Sites; Sounding of Subsurface Water Through Conductive Media in Mars Analog Environments Using Transient Electromagnetics and Low Frequency Ground-penetrating Radar; Burial Depth of the Reservoirs of Hydrogen at the Equatorial Latitudes on Mars; Elemental Composition Variations for Large Dusty and Rocky Regions on Mars Using Gamma-Ray Data from the Mars Odyssey Gamma-Ray Spectrometer; The Distribution of Non-Volatile Elements on Mars: Mars Odyssey GRS Results; Using Mars Odyssey GRS Data to Assess Models for the Bulk Composition of Mars; Mars: The Terra Arabia Low Epithermal Neutron Flux Anomaly; The Isidis Basin of Mars: New Results from MOLA, MOC, and THEMIS; Remote Sensing of the Haughton Impact Structure (HIS): A Terrestrial Proof of Concept for Using the Remote Sensing of Martian Craters as a Probe of Subsurface Composition;and Thermal Emission Spectra of Impact Glass and Shocked Deccan Basalt from Lonar Crater, India and Implications for Remote Sensing of Mars.

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Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV: Presolar Grains

Topics discussed include: Presolar Silicate Grains; Presolar Silicates from Primitivr Chondrites; Oxygen and Magnesium Isotopic Ratios of Presolar Spinel Grains; Study of Two New Presolar Grains from Bishunpur Ordinary Chondrite; Extinct Technetium in Presolar Grains; etc.

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Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV: Mercury, Top to Bottom

The following topics were discussed in this document: Resonant Rotation of the Two-Layer Mercury Model; Chronology of Lobate Scarp Thrust Faults and the Mechanical Structure of Mercury's Lithosphere; Mercury: Determination of Internal Structure and Evolution; Searching for Terrain Softening near Mercury's North Pole; Mercury: First Spectra from 0.7 to 5.5 micron Support Low FeO and Feldspathic Composition.

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Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV: Terrestrial Planets

The session "Terrestrial Planets: included:Lunar Soils May Tell Us When the Geomagnetic Field First Appeared; Metal-Silicate Segregation in Deforming Dunitic Rocks: Applications to Core Formation in Europa and Ganymede; Diamond Formation in Core Segregation Experiments; The Effect of Pressure on Potassium Partitioning Between Metallic Liquid and Silicate Melt; Reduction of W, Mn, and Fe, During High-Temperature Vaporization; Micrometeoritic Neon in the Earth s Mantle ; and New Analyses of Diverse Hadean Zircon Inclusions from Jack Hills.

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Lunar and Planetary Science XXXV: Lunar Rocks from Outer Space

The following topics were discussed: Mineralogy and Petrology of Unbrecciated Lunar Basaltic Meteorite LAP 02205; LAP02205 Lunar Meteorite: Lunar Mare Basalt with Similarities to the Apollo 12 Ilmenite Basalt; Mineral Chemistry of LaPaz Ice Field 02205 - A New Lunar Basalt; Petrography of Lunar Meteorite LAP 02205, a New Low-Ti Basalt Possibly Launch Paired with NWA 032; KREEP-rich Basaltic Magmatism: Diversity of Composition and Consistency of Age; Mineralogy of Yamato 983885 Lunar Polymict Breccia with Alkali-rich and Mg-rich Rocks; Ar-Ar Studies of Dhofar Clast-rich Feldspathic Highland Meteorites: 025, 026, 280, 303; Can Granulite Metamorphic Conditions Reset 40Ar-39Ar Ages in Lunar Rocks? [#1009] A Ferroan Gabbronorite Clast in Lunar Meteorite ALHA81005: Major and Trace Element Composition, and Origin; Petrography of Lunar Meteorite PCA02007, a New Feldspathic Regolith Breccia; and Troilite Formed by Sulfurization: A Crystal Structure of Synthetic Analogue

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