HR: 09:15h
AN: P41B-06    [Abstracts]
TI: Cassini Magnetic Field Observations During the Close Titan Encounter on October 26, 2004 on October 26, 2004
AU: * Neubauer, F M
EM: fritz.neubauer@t-online.de
AF: Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology,University of Cologne, Albertus Magnus Platz, Koeln, 50923 Germany
AU: Dougherty, M K
EM: m.dougherty@imperial.ac.uk
AF: Space and Atmospheric Physics Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2AZ United Kingdom
AU: Achilleos, N
EM: n.achilleos@imperial.ac.uk
AF: Space and Atmospheric Physics Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2AZ United Kingdom
AU: Andre, N
EM: Nicolas.Andre@cesr.fr
AF: CESR, 9 Avenue du Colonel Roche, Toulouse Cedex 4, 31028 France
AU: Arridge, C S
EM: christopher.arridge@imperial.ac.uk
AF: Space and Atmospheric Physics Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2AZ United Kingdom
AU: Bertucci, C
EM: c.bertucci@imperial.ac.uk
AF: Space and Atmospheric Physics Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2AZ United Kingdom
AU: Khurana, K K
EM: kkhurana@igpp.ucla.edu
AF: University of California Los Angeles, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, 405 Hilgard Avenue , Los Angeles, 90095-156 United States
AU: Russell, C S
EM: ctrussel@igpp.ucla.edu
AF: University of California Los Angeles, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, 405 Hilgard Avenue , Los Angeles, 90095-156 United States
AU: Wennmacher, A
EM: wennmach@geo.Uni-Koeln.DE
AF: Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology,University of Cologne, Albertus Magnus Platz, Koeln, 50923 Germany
AB: We shall report observations by the Cassini magnetometer experiment during the TA encounter of the Cassini spacecraft on October 26, 2004 with a minimum altitude of 1200 km. This is the first close encounter with Titan after the Voyager 1 flyby of November 12, 1980. Because of the Saturnian local time of 10.6 H, i.e. just before noon, Titan could be found inside the outer magnetosphere of Saturn or less probably in the magnetosheath or with much lower probability even in the solar wind. In the magnetosphere we shall be able to investigate the wake and tail forming region at intermediate northern latitudes on the inbound and northbound flyby trajectory. We shall also study boundaries,draping features etc. In addition we shall look for evidence for a magnetic field of internal origin.
DE: 6280 Saturnian satellites
DE: 2459 Planetary ionospheres (5435, 5729, 6026, 6027, 6028)
DE: 2732 Magnetosphere interactions with satellites and rings
SC: Planetary Sciences [P]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting