Solar System Observations by Spitzer (née SIRTF)


This page keeps track of the 104 Solar System projects that have been approved. The list is taken mostly from the SSC's own list -- which was last updated on Mar 11 2008 and has only 104 Solar System projects. For each project, the number of AORs and the number of hours that each program has been allocated is listed. This info is usually obtainable very easily from SPOT, and was last checked on Feb 2 2008. Of course PIs can apply to alter their programs, so there sometimes these quantities will change. A dash (-) after the number of hours indicates the project's current AORs have all been observed. (But note that by definition AR programs don't have AORs.) This file is a companion to the main list of observations.

   PI       pid Categ  prog name             AORs  time(h)     Kind of targets
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A'Hearn     223 DDT    tempel1                24    5.7    -   comet Tempel 1
Bauer       265 DDT    centaur_                2    2.0    -   2000 EC98
Bosh       3180 GO     asb_pluto               2    0.7    -   Pluto
Bottke    20539 GO     hilat                  40   99.9    -   high latitude dust bands
Brown       221 DDT    mbrown                  4    3.6    -   Sedna
Brown       245 DDT    xena                   11   25.7    -   large new KBOs
Brown      3283 GO     icyplanetoids          42   17.0    -   KBOs
Brown     30001 GO     go3_30001               4    3.6    -   largest KBOs
Brown     30883 GO     largekbos              19   22.5    -   largest KBOs
Campins   30241 GO     hidalgor               20    3.0    -   Hidalgo
Campins   40322 GO     lowqneas               31   11.5        Low perihelion NEAs
Cruikshank   67 GTO    dc_irs_sed_ck          19   11.6    -   Centaurs
Cruikshank   70 GTO    dc_pluto               35   11.7    -   Pluto
Cruikshank   88 GTO    asteroids-1            27   15.4    -   dead-comet candidates, low-albedo asteroids
Cruikshank   91 GTO    asteroids-2            28    6.1    -   dead-comet candidates, low-albedo asteroids
Dotto     20312 GO     neo_dotto              13   24.5    -   low delta-V NEAs
Emery       289 DDT    1999rq36               24    5.5    -   OSIRIS target asteroid
Emery     20769 GO     jpe-cen-kbo-troj       60   34.7    -   composition via IRAC albedos
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Emery     40389 GO     jpemerykbo            100   89.0        more composition via IRAC
Fazio       210 GTO    comdust                30    9.8    -   comet trails
Fazio     30010 GTO    comdustgo3             15   12.0    -   comet debris
Fazio     30252 GTO    gtoasts               144   20.7    *1  MBAs rotational variability
Fazio     50746 GTO    astlats                                 latitudinal distrib of asteroids
Fernandez  1095 DDT    fellcomets1            21   16.1    -   dust in distant comets
Fernandez  3698 GO     smalltrojansurvey      51    9.7    -   small Jovian Trojans
Fernandez 20697 GO     enckeaph               15    5.1    -   comet Encke at aphelion
Fernandez 30908 GO     seppcon               136  105.4    -   survey of comet nuclei
Fernandez 50066 GO     woodney                                 Hale-Bopp
Gehrz       119 GTO    rdg-pencke              3    1.0    -   comet Encke
Gehrz       131 GTO    rdg-comets             14    9.4    -   cometary dust
Grav       3582 GO     irrsat                 62   21.9    -   small Jovian and Saturnian satellites
Groussin  40270 GO     tuttle                 42    4.4    *2  comet 8P/Tuttle
Gru"n     20235 GO     eg_cgtrail              4   11.3    -   Comet C-G dust trail
Grundy     3542 GO     classy                122  101.5    -   KBOs
Harker    50335 GO     dharker                                 cometary dust
Harris    20158 GO     m.m.mueller            34   23.1    -   Karin family MBAs
Harris      271 DDT    donqu                   6    1.2    -   target of the Don Quixote spacecarft
Hines       467 DDT    uranus_equinox 
Houck        71 GTO    irs_moons_and_planets  68   15.0    -   outer planet satellites, Uranus, Neptune
Houck     30228 GTO    gto2_dpc               16   13.3    -   Trojans and extinct comets
Hsieh     30678 GO     hhmbcalbedo            42   14.1    *3  MBCs
Hsieh     40819 GO     hsieh_hilda            62    7.0        small Hildas
Jayaraman  1099 DDT    earthring              38   10.7    *4  near-Earth dust
Jayaraman 20075 GO     earthring2             54   15.7    -   continuing near-Earth dust 
Jayaraman 20077 Archiv zodyarchive2           --    ---    -   zodiacal cloud database
Jayaraman 30667 GO     earthring3             83   24.9    -   continuing near-Earth dust
Jayaraman 40893 GO     earthring4             10    3.3    -   continuing near-Earth dust
Jewitt    20796 GO     jewittcloids           25   15.2    -   Damocloids
Kelley    40042 GO     wirtanen               13   10.6        comet Wirtanen
Kelley    50716 GO     neaawms                                 NEAs with meteor streams
Kelley    50022 GO     67pminerals                             67P dust
Lamy        222 DDT    comet_cg_ddt1          17    1.9    -   comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Lamy      20001 GO     comet-73p              17    2.1    -   joint program with HST for SW3 
Lamy      20653 GO     rosetta_asteroids      28    4.5    -   Rosetta's two MBAs
Lamy      40259 GO     steins                  1    1.4        Rosetta's target Steins
Lim       20481 GO     masteroids1            42   14.4    -   M-type MBAs
Lim       50259 GO     vestoidsmagnya                          basaltic asteroids
Lisse     50593 GO     h2nuc2                                  Hartley 2 for EPOXI
Lisse      3658 GO     t1encounter            14   15.9    -   comet Tempel 1
Lisse      3660 GO     t1dustchar              8    8.7    -   comet Tempel 1
Lisse       291 DDT    comet_mcnaught          6    1.3    -   comet McNaught C/2006 P1
Lisse       460 DDT    EPOXI                   9   15.1    -   recovery of comet 85P/Boethin
Mainzer     468 DDT    1862apollo
Marchis   30235 GO     totaleclipse           18    3.0    -   Patroclus
Marchis   40164 GO     asteroa                34   20.7        Binary asteroids
Meadows     273 DDT    shower                  2    4.4    -   Enceladus 
Mueller   20448 GO     mueller.ph5             2    0.8    -   regolith on NEA 2000 PH5
Nesvorny  30545 GO     t2t                    30   75.0    -   type II dust trails
Orton      3534 GO     un                      8    9.2    -   Uranus, Neptune
Orton     20500 GO     un2                    10    5.0    -   more Uranus, Neptune
Reach      3119 GO     comdustgo1             23   14.4    -   cometary dust
Reach     20039 GO     comdust2               11   16.1    -   comets Tempel 1 and SW3
Reach       256 DDT    flyrock                 7   11.5    -   ejecta from comet Tempel 1
Reach       274 DDT    73pearls                8   24.1    -   SW3 fragments
Reach       466 DDT    bigflash               10   12.0        ToO 17P/Holmes outburst
Rieke        55 GTO    stans_kbo              69   45.9    -   KBOs, Centaurs
Rieke     40016 GTO    grieke3                11   11.0        KBOs, Centaurs
Sitko     20205 GO     sitkocomet             17   35.6    -   comet SW3
Sitko     30066 GO     sitkosw3               16   20.8    -    more comet SW3
Soifer       98 DDT    fls_ecliptic_plane     11   14.4    -   Main Belt asteroids
Spencer    3229 GO     binaries               26   28.7    -   density of KBOs
Spencer   20217 GO     binaries_2             12   19.2    -   density of KBOs
Spencer   20446 GO     triton_temp            13   16.1    -   Triton surface temperature
Stansberry30014 GO     pluto_go3              12    8.4    -   Pluto
Stansberry30081 GO     kboredux               34   37.8        KBOs and Centaurs
Stansberry50016 GO     pluto_go5                               Pluto
Stansberry50024 GO     go5binkbo                               binary KBOs
Sykes      2317 GO     zody                  278  169.6    -   zodiacal dust
Sykes       292 DDT    itokawa_ddt             6    3.9    -   Hayabusa target asteroid
Tamblyn    3723 GO     ptamblyn               16    1.6    -   Main Belt asteroids
Tamblyn   20538 GO     koronis-binaries        2    1.5    -   MBA Koronis-family binaries
Tamblyn   20788 GO     veritas                16    1.6    -   MBA Veritas-family 
Tedesco    3366 Archiv essepsy                --    ---    -   Main Belt asteroids
Trilling  30213 Archiv spastercat             --    ---    -   asteroid catalog
Trilling  40116 Archiv spastercat2            --    ---    -   more asteroid catalog
Trilling  50274 Archiv spastercat3                             more asteroid catalog
Trilling  50348 GO     centaurscy5                             Centaurs
Trilling  40964 GO     regolith               65   10.7        regoliths on asteroids
Trilling    476 DDT    warmneos                                NEA thermal emission
van Cleve 30080 GO     collision              28   10.7    -   asteroids colliding
van Cleve 40842 GTO    moons4                 24    5.1        more satellites
Verbiscer 40840 GO     verbiscer               3    3.5        Phoebe/rings
Verbiscer 50780 DDT    av4n                                    Saturn dust
Walker     3692 Archiv trails_fls             --    ---    -   comet trails
Wong       3712 GO     bigger                  2    3.3    -   Jovian rings
Wooden     3152 GO     wooden_too_cp1          7    4.7    -   comet C/2004 Q2 Machholz
Wooden    20104 GO     cometsb1t4             24   27.3    -   comet C/2004 B1 and C/2003 T4
Wooden    20105 GO     wooden_cy2_too          0    0.0    *5  ToO comet
Wooden    30069 GO     2comets_3              13   10.9        ToO comet
Wooden    30589 GO     67pactivity            20   11.5        comet 67P
Wooden      294 DDT    67pnuc                 22    4.8    -   comet 67P
Wooden    40571 Archiv dwooden                --    ---    -   crystalline silicates in comets
Wooden    40812 GO     mcnaught               10   15.6        Comet McNaught C/2006 P1
Woodney   20639 GO     comets5au               5   17.1    -   high-perihelion comets
Woodward   2316 GO     chick-comets           33   25.0    -   cometary dust
Woodward  20021 GO     cew_comets2            42   54.7    -   more cometary dust


*1: Cycle 3 program but lots of AORs still available. Was it cut?
*2: Program was cut to 2 AORs for 0.3 hours.
*3: Cycle 3 program but a few AORs left -- just never scheduled?
*4: Program 1099 originally had 76 AORs for over 12.6 hours, but SPOT now only displays 38 AORs. Several AORs from before were IERs.
*5: Originally SPOT showed 14 AORs for 10.3 hours, but currently it shows empty. Was the program activated?




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Created Aug 31 2004. Maintained by Yan Fernández (email, website home).