Guide to Technical Sessions and Activities


Monday Morning, 8:30 a.m.
Room A      Presolar Grains
Room B      Lunar Volcanos: From the Inside Out
Room C      Mars Lander Science
Room D      Impacts I

Monday Afternoon, 1:30 p.m.
Room C      Plenary Session

Presentations to the 1998 GSA Stephen E. Dwornik Student Paper Award Winners
followed by Harold Masursky Lectures

Monday Afternoon, 3:00 p.m.
Room A      Venus Geology and Geophysics
Room B      Planetary Interior Processes
Room C      Mars Surface Chemistry
Room D      SPECIAL SESSION -- NEAR at Eros

Tuesday Morning, 8:30 a.m.
Room A      Calcium-Aluminum-rich Inclusions (CAIs)
Room B      SPECIAL SESSION -- New Moon I: Hot Spots, Gravity, and Magnetism
Room C      SPECIAL SESSION -- Mars Global Surveyor (MGS): A New Chapter
Room D      Icy Satellites

Tuesday Noontime, 12:15 p.m.
Room C      SPECIAL SESSION -- Future Planetary Missions

Tuesday Afternoon, 1:30 p.m.
Room A      Early Solar System Processes and Timescales
Room B      SPECIAL SESSION -- New Moon II: Major Lunar Terrains
Room C      Mars Global Surveyor (MGS): Oceans, Basins, and More
Room D      Cosmic Dust

Tuesday Evening, 7:00-9:30 p.m.
UHCL Bayou Bldg.      Poster Session I:

Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) and Pathfinder
Lunar Volcanos from the Inside Out
New Moon Views
Venus Geology and Geophysics
Europa
Small Bodies
Origins of Planetary Systems
Presolar Grains
Calcium-Aluminum-rich Inclusions (CAIs) and Chondrules
Chondrites
Astrobiology: Precursors, Origins, and Martians
Cosmic Dust
Planetary Interior Processes
Impacts I
Special Session -- Future Missions: Science and Technology

Wednesday Morning, 8:30 a.m.
Room A      Martian Meteorites I: The Newest and the Oldest
Room B      Impacts II
Room C      Mars Global Surveyor (MGS): Volcanics and Surfaces
Room D      Origins of Planetary Systems

Wednesday Afternoon, 1:30 p.m.
Room A      Chondrules
Room B      Lunar Structure, Evolution, and Highlands
Room C      Mars Tectonics, Volcanism, and Interior
Room D      Small Bodies

Wednesday Evening, 6:00-9:30 p.m.
Conference Social Event, Campbell Hall, Pasadena Fairgrounds

Thursday Morning, 8:30 a.m.
Room A      Martian Meteorites II: Shergottites, Nakhlites, and Chassigny
Room B      Chondrites I: Alteration and Processing
Room C      Mars Climate, Polar Caps, and Hydrology
Room D      Lunar Poles and Regolith

Thursday Afternoon, 1:30 p.m.
Room A      Astrobiology: Precursors, Origins, and Martians
Room B      Achondrites and Anomalous Meteorites
Room C      Io
Room D      Planetary Surface Processes

Thursday Evening, 7:30-10:00 p.m.
UHCL Bayou Bldg.      Poster Session II:

Education: Fun in the Classroom
Outer Planet Satellites
Small Icy Bodies
Achondrites
Iron Meteorites
Meteorite Melange
Cosmogenic Nuclides
Martian Meteorites
Mars: General Science
Future Mars Missions
Recipes for Lunar Rocks
Lunar Missions and Data
Lunar Poles and Regolith
Mercury
Impacts II
Planetary Surface Processes
New Instruments and Techniques
Digital Datasets

Friday Morning, 8:30 a.m.
Room A      Near-Future Mars Missions
Room B      Iron Meteorites and Platinum-Group Elements
Room C      Europa
Room D      Chondrites II: Portales Valley and Others

Print-Only Presentations:

Future Planetary Missions
Impacts
Interplanetary Dust Particles (IDPs)
Mars
Meteorites
Moon
New Instruments and Techniques
Origins of Planetary Systems
Outer Planets and Satellites
Planetary Surface Processes
Small Bodies
Venus