Uranus after Solstice: Results from the 1998 November 6 Occultation

• Main Authors: Leslie A. Young, Amanda S. Bosh, Marc Buie, J. L. Elliot
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: Key Words; Uranus; atmosphere; North Pole
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.8.164; http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~layoung/eprint/ur149/Young2001Uranus.pdf

this paper are given relative to the rotational North pole of Uranus, following the notation in Baron et al. 1989 and Sicardy et al. 1985.) All published occultations of the Uranian atmosphere at 1-- 100 bar occurred before Uranus' southern summer solstice in 1985, except the Voyager UVS occultation in 1986 (Broadfoot et al. 1986, Herbert et al. 1987). Since Uranus' subsolar latitude changed from 51 # in 1977 to 76 # in 1983, one major goal of 236 0019-1035/01 $35.00 Copyright c 2001 by Academic Press All rights of reproduction in any form reserved