Date:   July 22, 2008 (Tuesday)
Time:   3:30 pm EDT (refreshments at 3:20 pm)
Place:  Green Bank Auditorium
         (Video: CV-AUD/AOC-AUD)

Speaker:  Amy Lovell, Agnes Scott College

Title:  "Potential for Asteroid Observations with ALMA"

Abstract:
Thermal observations of large asteroids at millimeter and centimeter
wavelengths have revealed high amplitude rotational lightcurves, far beyond
visually-observed effects.  Such lightcurves provide unique insight into the
nature of these small bodies and can lead to better constraints on the
composition, physical structures, and processing history of the solar debris
disk.  The high sensitivity of ALMA will enable us to detect many small
bodies in all the major groups, to obtain lightcurves for a large sample of
main-belt and near-Earth objects (including radar and spacecraft targets),
to resolve the surfaces of some large objects, and to separate the emission
from primary and secondary objects in a binary pair.

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