GH1  Meteors, Orbital Debris and Dusty Plasmas

Thursday, January 4  08:20-11:40  Room 151

Session Chairs:  Eric Gillman, Ed Thomas

08:20  GH1-1  STUDIES OF DUST PARTICLE CONFINEMENT AND TRANSPORT IN STRONGLY MAGNETIZED PLASMAS USING THE MAGNETIZED DUSTY PLASMA EXPERIMENT (MDPX) DEVICE

Edward Thomas*1, Spencer LeBlanc1, Taylor Hall1, Uwe Konopka1, Robert L. Merlino2, Marlene Rosenberg3

1Physics, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
2Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
3Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, CA


08:40  GH1-2  METHODS FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF IMPOSED, ORDERED STRUCTURES IN MDPX

Taylor Hall*, Edward Thomas

Auburn University, Auburn, AL


09:00  GH1-3  MEASUREMENTS OF DENSITY GRADIENTS AND DUSTY PLASMA ROTATION IN INDUCTIVELY COUPLED DISCHARGES AT HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS

W. J. Birmingham*, C. A. Romero-Talamas, E. M. Bates

Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore


09:20  GH1-4  DUSTY PLASMA ROTATION AND ACCELERATION IN INDUCTIVELY COUPLED DISCHARGES AT HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS

Carlos A. Romero-Talamas*, William J. Birmingham, Evan M. Bates

Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD


09:40  GH1-5  MEASUREMENTS OF THERMAL EFFECTS IN THE DISPERSION RELATION OF THE DUST ACOUSTIC WAVE

Jeremiah Williams*

Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH


10:20  GH1-6  NON-INVASIVE IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENTS IN A COMPLEX PLASMA

Eric D. Gillman*, Bill E. Amatucci

Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC


10:40  GH1-7  EXPERIMENTAL CAPABILITIES AT IMPACT

Mihaly Horanyi*

LASP and Physics, U. of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado


11:00  GH1-8  AMBIPOLAR ELECTRIC FIELD AND DIFFUSIVE COOLING OF ELECTRONS IN METEOR TRAILS

Victor P. Pasko*1, Michael C. Kelley2

1Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
2Cornell University, Ithaca, New York


11:20  GH1-9  DEVELOPMENT OF AN ALL-SKY METEOR TRAIL INPUT FUNCTION

Freddy Galindo, Julio Urbina*

Electrical Engineering, Penn State, University Park, PA