Location (Fall 2009)

Hennings building, Room 309, Tuesdays 12:30 - 1:30 pm

Each journal club includes
1. a brief Table of Contents overview for the monthly issue of a major research journal, and
2. a discussion of a research paper.

Current/Recent PJC papers

In reverse chronological order:

2 Feb 2010
A single sub-kilometre Kuiper belt object from a stellar occultation in archival data
Nature, vol 462, 895-897.

27 Oct 2009 and Nov 3 2009
Palme (2004) Science
Canup (2004) Icarus, vol 168.
The moon-forming impact

20 Oct 2009
Bottke et al (2000) Understanding the distribution of Near-Earth asteroids.
Science, vol 288, 2190-2194.

13 Oct 2009
Lowry, S. et al 2007. Direct Detection of the Asteroidal YORP Effect.
Taylor, P. et al 2007. Spin Rate of Asteroid (54509) 2000 PH5 Increasing Due to the YORP Effect
The Yarkovsky and Yorp Effects: Implications for Asteroid Dynamics (Bottke et al. 2006)

6 Oct 2009
TOC: Oct 2009 Icarus, first half.
Brown, P. et al, 2002. The flux of small near-Earth objects colliding with the Earth. Nature, 420, 294-296.

29 Sep 2009
Table of contents review: May 2009 MAPS
Intro to planet-crossing stuff.

22 Sep 2009
Organizational meeting

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25 Aug 2008
Modelling the NEOSSat survey strategy.


18 Aug 2008
Gas disks to Gas Giants (2008) E. Thommes et al., Science, 321, 814-817.


2 June 2008
Exploring the outer Solar System with the ESSENCE Supernova Survey . (2008) A.C. Becker et al, astro-ph.


26 May 2008
A centenary survey of orbits of co-orbitals of Jupiter . (2008) R.G. Stacey and M. Connors, P. and S.S., 3, 358-367.


13 May 2008
Review of 2008 DDA meeting in Boulder Colarado.


21 Apr 2008
Internal and tectonic evolution of Mercury . (2004) Hauck et al, EPSL 222, 713-728.


13 Apr 2008
Long-period forcing of Mercury's libration in longitude. (2007) Peale et al, Icarus 187, 365-373.
See also his DDS abstract.


6 Apr 2008
The Origin of Mercury's Internal Magnetic Field. (2007) Wicht et al, Space Sci. Rev. 132, 261-290.


31 Mar 2008
Determination of the properties of Mercury's magnetic field by the MESSENGER mission. (2004) Korth et al, Planet. Space Sci. 252, 733-746.
On the determination of the Hermaean magnetic moment: A critical review. (1979) Slavin et al, PEPI 20, 231-236.

3 Mar 2008
Topography of lobate scarps on Mercury: New constraints on the planet's contraction. (1998) Watters et al, Space Sci. Rev. 26, 991-994.

10 Feb 2008
The Origin of Mercury. (2007) Benz et al, Space Sci. Rev. 132, 189-202.

31 Jan 2008
Mercury: The enigmatic innermost planet. (2003) Solomon, EPSL 216, 441-455.
The MESSENGER mission to Mercury: scientific objectives and implementation. (2001) Solomon et al, Planetary and Space Science 49, 1445-1465.

3 Dec 2007
The Rubble-Pile Asteroid Itokawa as Observed by Hayabusa. (2007) Fujiwara et al, Science 312, 1330-1334.
Adventures in Near-Earth Object Exploration. (2007) Asphaug et al, Science 312, 1328-1329.

19 Nov 2007
On the stability of a planet between Mars and the asteroid belt: Implications for the Planet V hypothesis. (2007) Chambers, Icarus, 189, 386-400

5 Nov 2007
Stratigraphy and Isotope Ages of Lunar Geologic Units: Chronological Standard for the Inner Solar System. (2001) Space Sci. Rev. 96, 9-45.

22 Oct 2007
The Late Heavy Bombardment in the inner Solar System: Is there any connection to Kuiper Belt objects. (2003) Koeberl, Earth, Moon & Planets 92, 79-87.

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8 June 2007
The hottest planet. (2007) Harrington et al. Nature, 447, 691-693.

1 June 2007
Testing Gravity in the Outer Solar System: Results from Trans-Neptunian Objects. (2007) Wallin, Dixon and Page. arXiv:0705.3408

19 Mar 2007
Binaries in the Kuiper Belt. (2007) Noll et al. Accepted for "The Kuiper Belt" book.

12 Mar 2007
The origin of episodic accretion bursts in the early stages of start formation. (2005) Vorobyov and Basu. ApJ Lett 633, 137-140.

5 Mar 2007
Rays and secondary craters of Tycho. (2007) Dundas and McEwan. Icarus 186, 31-40.

12 Feb 2007 : Bob Hawkes (Mount Allison U.) presents
Detection of sporadic impact flashes on the Moon: Implications for the luminous efficiency of hypervelocity impacts and derived terrestrial impact rates. (2006) Ortiz et al. Icarus 184, 319-326.

5 Feb 2007
Possible extra-Solar-System cause for certain lunar seismic events. (2006) Frohlich and Nakamura. Icarus 185, 21-28.

29 Jan 2007
Meteoritical and dynamical constraints on the growth mechanisms and formation times of asteroids and Jupiter. (2006) Scott. Icarus 185, 72-82.

22 Jan 2007
A possible long-lived belt of objects between Uranus and Neptune. (1997) Holman. Nature 387, 785-788.

16 Nov 2006 : Guest speaker Joe Dufek (U. Washington)

2 Nov 2006
Causes, characteristics and consequences of convective diapirism on Europa. (2002) Nimmo and Manga. Journal of Geophysical Research, 29, 2109.

26 Oct 2006
1. Report on DPS meeting;
2. No evidence for thick deposits of ice at the lunar south pole. (2006) Campbell et al. Nature 443, 835-837.

19 Oct 2006
An Upper Limit on the Albedo of HD 209458b: Direct Imaging Photometry with the MOST Satellite. (2006) Rowe et al. The Astrophysical Journal, 646, 1241-1251.

5 Oct 2006
Evidence for a past high-eccentricity lunar orbit. (2006) Garrick-Bethell, Wisdom and Zuber. Science 313, 652-655.

28 Sep 2006
Nomenclature in the outer Solar System (2006) Gladman, Marsden, and VanLaerhoven, submitted.

21 Sep 2006
Atmospheric dynamics of the outer planets. (2000) A. Ingersoll. Science, 248, 308-315.

14 Sep 2006
Tidal effects in the Earth-Moon System. (1972) P. Goldreich. Scientific American.

7 Sep 2006
Cassini Imaging Science: Initial Results on Phoebe and Iapetus. (2005) C. Porco et al. Science, 307, 1237-1242.