Mitch Gordon's Home Page

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Principal Investigator
Center for the Study of Life in the Universe
SETI Institute
515 North Whisman Road
Mountain View, CA 94043
mgordon@seti.org

Research Projects

• The Rings Node for the Planetary Data System
  (NASA Planetary Data System, 2002-present)
• Resonances in Saturn's Rings
  (NASA Outer Planet's Data Analysis Program Grant, 2005-2007)

Publications

• Gordon, M.K., S. Araki, G.I., Black, and 37 coauthors, Planetary Rings, in The Future of Solar System Exploration, 2003-2013, ASP Conference Proceedings, 272, M. Sykes, Ed., ASP, 2002.

• Giuliatti Winter, S.M., C.D. Murray and M.K. Gordon, Perturbations to Saturn’s F-ring strands at their closest approach to Prometheus, Planetary & Space Science 48, 817, 2000.

• Murray, C.D., M.K. Gordon and S.M. Giuliatti Winter, Unraveling the Strands of Saturn’s F ring, Icarus 129, 304, 1997.
• Dahlgren, M., C.-I. Lagerkvist, A. Fitzsimmons, I. P. Williams, and M. Gordon, A study of Hilda asteroids. II. Compositional implications from optical spectroscopy, Astron. Astrophys. 323, 606, 1997.

• Gordon, M.K., C.D. Murray and K. Beurle, Further evidence for the existence of additional small satellites of Saturn, Icarus 121, 114, 1996.
• Murray, C.D. and M.K. Gordon. Material in tadpole and horseshoe orbits in the Saturnian system, Report to the Cassini Ring Hazard Workshop, NASA Ames, January 1996.

• Gordon, M.K. , C.D. Murray and K. Beurle, Possible satellites of Saturn, IAU Circular 6162, Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 14 April 1995.

2006

• Gordon, M.K., C.D. Murray, and M.R. Showalter, Satellite Mean Motion Resonances in Saturn's Rings, Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc. 38, 560, 2006.

• Gordon, M.K., J. Cuzzi, J.J. Lissauer, and 36 coauthors, Decadal Survey: Planetary Rings Panel, Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc. 33, 1057, 2001

• Kirk, R., and 29 coauthors, Mapping the Sagan Memorial Station Site with the IMP Camera, 29th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, abstract # 1752, 1998.
• Gaddis, L., and 27 coauthors, The Mars Pathfinder Super Pan: A U.S.G.S. Cartographic Product., 29th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, abstract # 1831, 1998.

• Soderblom, L.A., and 25 coauthors, The Mars Pathfinder Super Pan: U.S. Geological Survey Processing and Analysis, Eos, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union 78
• Giuliatti Winter, S.M., C.D. Murray and M.K. Gordon, F ring strands at closest approach with Prometheus, Presented at the Rio de Janeiro International workshop on planetary sciences, November 1997.
• Gordon, M.K., C.D. Murray and S.M. Giuliatti Winter, F ring model from analysis of the ring’s radial structure, Presented at the Wellesley Workshop on observations of the Saturn system from the 1995-1996 ring plane crossings, July 1997.
• Gordon, M.K., S.M. Larson, C.D. Murray, D.H.P. Jones, S.C. Greaves, and O. Munoz, WHT observations of the Saturn system, 2 & 3 August 1995., Presented at the Wellesley Workshop on observations of the Saturn system from the 1995-1996 ring plane crossings, July 1997.

• Larson, S., C.D. Murray, D.H.P. Jones, M.K. Gordon, S.C. Greaves, and O. Munoz, Color of the Saturn E ring, Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc. 27, 1132, 1995.
• Gordon, M.K., S.C. Greaves, D.H.P. Jones, C.D. Murray, S. Larson and O. Munoz, CCD Imaging of the Saturn system immediately prior to the August ring plane crossing, Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc. 27, 1132, 1995.
• Gordon, M.K. and C.D. Murray. Possible detection of additional small satellites of Saturn in Voyager images, Presented at the monthly meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1995.

• Gordon, M.K. and C.D. Murray. Possible detection of additional small satellites of Saturn in Voyager images, Bull. Amer. Astron. Soc. 26, 1160, 1994.
Articles
• Gordon, M.K. and C.D. Murray. Preparing for Cassini: Astronomers use NAIF/SPICE to improve ephemerides of Saturn satellites, Information Systems Newsletter, NASA Office of Space Science Applications, June 1992.

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Last updated January 30, 2007.