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     A list of publications associated with data obtained at McDonald Observatory.


  • Magnetospheric influence on the Moon's exosphere , Wilson, Jody K.; Mendillo, Michael; Spence, Harlan E., JGR, 111, A07207, 2006.
  • The Io Neutral Clouds and Plasma Torus, N. Thomas, F. Bagenal, T.W. Hill, J.K. Wilson, in Jupiter: Planet, Satellites & Magnetosphere, F. Bagenal, W. McKinnon, T. Dowling, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  • The outer limits of the lunar sodium exosphere, J. Wilson, J. Baumgardner, M. Mendillo, Geophysical Research Letters, 30(12), 1649, 2003.
  • The Dual Sources of Io’s Sodium Clouds, J. K. Wilson, M. Mendillo, J. Baumgardner, N. M. Schneider, J. T. Trauger, and B. Flynn, Icarus, 157, 476-489, 2002.
  • Monitoring the moon's transient atmosphere with an all-sky imager, S.M. Smith, M. Mendillo, J.K. Wilson, J. Baumgardner, Advances in Space Research, 27, 1181-1187, 2001.
  • Discovery of the Distant Lunar Sodium Tail and Its Enhancement Following the Leonid Meteor Shower of 1998, S. M. Smith, J. K. Wilson, J. Baumgardner, M. Mendillo, Geophysical Research Lett., 26, 1649-52, 1999.
  • Modeling an Enhancement of the Lunar Sodium Atmosphere and Tail During the Leonid Meteor Shower of 1998, J. K. Wilson, S. M. Smith, J. Baumgardner, M. Mendillo, Geophysical Research Lett., 26, 1645-48, 1999.
  • Io's sodium directional feature: Evidence for ionospheric escape, J. K. Wilson, N. M. Schneider, Journal of Geophysical Research (Planets), 104, pp. 16567-16584, 1999.
  • Observational Test for the Solar Wind Origin of the Moon’s Sodium Atmosphere, M. Mendillo, J. Baumgardner, and J. K. Wilson, Icarus, 137, 13-23, 1999.
  • Three Tails of Comet Hale-Bopp, J.K. Wilson, J. Baumgardner, and M. Mendillo, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 225, 1998
  • Groundbased Remote Sensing of Energetic Neutral Atoms In Jupiter's Magnetosphere, M. Mendillo, J.K. Wilson, J. Baumgardner and N.M. Schneider, in the Three Galileos: The Man, The Spacecraft, The Telescope, C. Barbieri, J. Rahe, T. Johnson, and A.M. Sohos (eds) p. 411, Kluwer Academic Publishing, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1997
  • Eclipse Observations of the Lunar Atmosphere from the TNG Site, M. Mendillo, J. Baumgardner, G. Cremonese and C. Barbieri, the Three Galileos: The Man, The Spacecraft, The Telescope, C. Barbieri, J. Rahe, T. Johnson, and A.M. Sohos (eds) p. 393, Kluwer Academic Publishing, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1997
  • Modeling the Moon's Extended Sodium Cloud as a Tool for Investigating Sources of Transient Atmosphere, M. Mendillo, J. Emery, and B. Flynn, Adv. Space Res., 19, 157, 1997
  • Simulations of the Lunar Sodium Atmosphere, B. Flynn and M. Mendillo, J. Geophys. Res. (Planets), 100, 23271, 1995
  • Constraints on the Origin of the Moon's Atmosphere From Observations During a Lunar Eclipse, M. Mendillo and J. Baumgardner, Nature, 377, 404, 1995
  • The Jovian Sodium Nebula: Two Years of Ground-based Observations, B. Flynn, M. Mendillo, and J. Baumgardner, J. Geophys. Res., (Planets), 99, 8403, 1994
  • If Galileo Had Owned a CCD, Jeffrey Baumgardner and Michael Mendillo, Sky & Telescope, June 1993.
  • A Picture of the Moon's Atmosphere, B. Flynn and M. Mendillo, Science, 261, 184, 1993.
  • Imaging Observations of Jupiter's Sodium Magneto-nebula During the Ulysses Encounter, M. Mendillo, J. Baumgardner, and B. Flynn, Science, 257, 1510, 1992.
  • Observations and Modeling of the Jovian Remote Neutral Sodium Emissions, B. Flynn, M. Mendillo and J. Baumgardner,  Icarus, 99, 115, 1992.
  • Imaging Observations of the Extended Sodium Atmosphere of the  Moon, M. Mendillo, J. Baumgardner, and B. Flynn,  Geophys. Res. Lett., 18, 2097, 1991
  • The Extended Sodium Nebula of Jupiter, M. Mendillo, J. Baumgardner, B. Flynn and W.J. Hughes,  Nature, 348, 312, 1990.