| 08:45-08:50 | Welcome to the STScI |
John Grunsfeld
(STScI Deputy Director) |
| 08:45-10:30 | Session Chair: Hal Weaver |
| 08:50-09:00 | Workshop Goals and New Horizons | Stern (SwRI) |
| 09:00-09:30 | Nix and Hydra Retrospective | Weaver (JHU/APL) |
| 09:30-10:00 | Nix-Hydra-Charon Interrelationships | Stern (SwRI) |
| 10:00-10:30 | Limits on Pluto’s Small Companions | Steffl (SwRI)/
Mutchler (STScI) |
| 10:30-10:45 | BREAK | |
| 10:45-11:45 | Session Chair: Leslie Young |
10:45-11:15 | KBO Multiples (Observations) | Noll (STScI) |
| 11:15-11:45 | KBO Multiples (Theory) | Schlicting (Caltech) |
| 11:45-13:00 | LUNCH + Poster Viewing | |
| 13:00-15:00 | Session Chair: Bill McKinnon |
13:00-13:30 | New Horizons Plans for Nix and Hydra | Young (SwRI) |
| 13:30-14:00 | Orbit and Mass Determinations | Buie (SwRI) |
| 14:00-14:30 | Nix/Hydra Formation Scenarios | Ward (SwRI) |
| 14:30-15:00 | Resonances and Orbital Evolution | Peale (UCSB)
Lee & Cheng (U Hong Kong) |
| 15:00-15:45 | Poster Viewing/Break | |
| 15:45-17:15 | Session Chair: Alan Stern |
15:45-16:15 | Size, Shape, Density, Structure: What We Know and Might Expect | Thomas (Cornell) |
| 16:15-16:45 | Albedo, Color, and Spectral Prospects | Grundy (Lowell Obs.) |
| 16:45-17:15 | Occultation Prospects | Olkin (SwRI) |
| 08:30-10:00 | Session Chair: Keith Noll |
08:30-10:00 | Contributed Observation Papers | (15 min each; 6 total) |
| 10:00-10:30 | BREAK/Poster Viewing | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Session Chair: Cathy Olkin |
10:30-11:00 | The Pluto System in the Context of
Kuiper Belt Formation & Evolution | Morbidelli (Nice) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Potential for Rings at Pluto | Showalter (SETI) Hamilton (UMD) |
| 11:30-12:00 | Gas in the Pluto system | Strobel (JHU) |
| 12:00-13:00 | LUNCH | |
| 13:00-15:00 | Session Chair: Will Grundy |
13:00-13:30 | ALMA Observation Prospects | Butler (NRAO) |
| 13:30-14:00 | Expected Crater Populations | Bottke (SwRI) |
| 14:00-14:30 | Nix and Hydra in Context of Other Solar System Moons and Exploration | Spencer (SwRI) |
| 14:30-15:00 | Closing Discussion on Nix and Hydra Future
Observations | Weaver (APL) & Stern (SwRI) |
| 15:00-17:00 | Posters/Reception | |
