ON SATURDAY, APRIL 26, THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK  (the state's society of professional astronomers) WILL HOLD ITS SPRING SCIENTIFIC SESSION AT COLGATE UNIVERSITY IN LATHROP 217, FROM 10 AM TO 4:30 PM. TWO INVITED 45 MINUTE TALKS (one by Colgate graduate Ian Hoffman '98) AND A DOZEN SHORTER CONTRIBUTED PAPERS WILL BE PRESENTED BY FACULTY, GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATRE STUDENTS FROM THROUGHOUT THE STATE.

THE MEETING IS OPEN TO ALL.

YOU MAY ATTEND ALL OR PART OF THE MEETING WITHOUT NOTIFYING US IN ADVANCE. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE COFFEE BREAKS AND LUNCH (NO CHARGE) [OR WISH TO RECEIVE THE FINAL SCHEDULE LATER IN THE WEEK] PLEASE EMAIL ME BY 6 PM WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME.

Tom Balonek

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Thomas J. Balonek 151 Lathrop Hall

Dept. of Physics and Astronomy email: tbalonek@mail.colgate.edu

13 Oak Dr. phone: 315-228-7767

Hamilton, NY 13346 fax: 315-228-7187

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(PRELIMINARY - ORDER SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

PROGRAM

ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK

SPRING MEETING, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2003

LATHROP 217, COLGATE UNIVERSITY

9:15 Coffee and Pastries

10:00 Morning Session (solar system and education)

RETURNING TO THE SURFACE OF MARS: THE 2003 MARS EXPLORATION ROVERS (Invited Paper – 45 minutes)

Scott M. McLennan (SUNY Stony Brook) and the Athena Science Team

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ASTEROID-LIKE COMET NUCLEUS C/2001 OG108 (LONEOS)

Y. R. Fernandez (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawai’i)

P. Pravec (Astronomical Institute, Czech Republic)

L. M. French (Illinois Wesleyan University)

T. L. Farnham (University of Maryland)

M. J. Gaffey (University of North Dakota)

P. S. Hardersen (RPI, University of North Dakota )

P. Kusnirak, L. Sarounova (Astronomical Institute, Czech Republic)

S. S. Sheppard (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawai’i)

KOZAI RESONANTORS AMONG DISTANT MOONS OF THE JOVIAN PLANETS

Valerio Carruba (Cornell University)

ARECIBO MICROMETEORS: AFTER FIVE YEARS

Brent Bartlett, David Meisel (SUNY Geneseo)

Diego Janches (NAIC-Arecibo)

John Mathews (Penn State)

RARE ASTRONOMY BOOKS AS TEACHING TOOLS

George Wise, M. Colleen Gino (Dudley Observatory, Schenectady, NY)

poster paper summaries

12:00 Lunch, Merrill House

1:30 First Afternoon Session (stellar astronomy)

OH (1720 MHZ) MASERS IN SUPERNOVA REMNANTS: MERLIN AND VERY LONG BASELINE ARRAY OBSERVATIONS OF IC443, W28, W44, AND W51 (Invited Paper – 45 minutes)

RADIATION HYDRODYNAMICS OF SHOCK WAVES IN PROTOPLANETARY DISKS

W.G Roberge, G.E. Hassel., D.C.B. Whittet, S.S. Shenoy (RPI)

YOUNG CLUSTERS OF LOW-MASS STARS IN ORION'S BELT

William Sherry (SUNY Stony Brook)

THE NSTARS (NEARBY STARS) PROJECT

Aileen A. O'Donoghue (St. Lawrence University)

15:15 Coffee Break

15:30 Second Afternoon Session (stellar and extragalactiic astronomy)

DO QUARK STARS EXIST? THE ASTROPHYSICS OF RADIO QUIET NEUTRON STARS

Fred Walter ( SUNY Stony Brook)

THE SAMUEL J. GOLDSTEIN, JR. RADIO TELESCOPE AT SUNY-GENESEO

Mark Sunheimer, David Meisel, Brent Bartlett, Clint Cross, Kirk Anne, Dan Rice

(SUNY-Geneseo)

THE MULTIPLE TIMESCALES OF OPTICAL VARIABILITY OF THE BLAZAR 3C 279 DURING THE 2001-2002 OUTBURST

THE MOLECULAR DISK IN THE CLOVERLEAF QUASAR

Stefano Venturini (SUNY Stony Brook)

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