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Spring 2013 Planetary Lunch Bunch
All talks take place in Lincoln Field room 209 from 12:00-1:00pm, unless otherwise noted.
All are welcome

February 7
R. Terik Daly
Electrospray charging of cosmic dust analogs

February 14
No Lunch Bunch

February 21
Kerri Donaldson Hanna
Formation and Evolution of the Moon's Primary Crust: Integrating Remote Sensing Analyses with Laboratory Studies

February 28
Daniel Moriarty
The South Pole - Aitken Basin:  Compositional diversity, geologic context, and implications for basin evolution from Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) spectral parameters

March 7
Shuai Li
Quantitative mapping of lunar surface hydration with Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) data

March 14
LPSC Prep Week

March 21
No Lunch Bunch (LPSC)

March 28
No Lunch Bunch (Spring Break)

April 4
Ken Ramsley
Mars impact ejecta on Phobos

April 11
Megan Bruck Syal
Cometary coma collisions on the Moon

April 18
Michael Beach
Timing of glacial-related concentric crater fill deposition and implications for climate and obliquity variations on Mars during the Amazonian

April 25
Stephanie Quintana
Methods to determine impact melting and vaporization using the shock physics analysis package, CTH

April 26 (Friday, 1pm)
Clive Neal
Bulk Composition of the Moon, Crystallization of the Lunar Magma Ocean, and Melt Rock Petrogenesis (or Following the Al2O3)

May 2
Leah Cheek
Spectral reflectance properties of anorthosite

May 9
Edgard Rivera-Valentin
Numerical modeling of heat and mass transfer processes in the Solar System