ICARUS 121, 351-360 (1996)
ARTICLE NO. 0093

        Absolute Reflectivity Spectra of Jupiter: 0.25-3.5 Micrometers

                                N. J. CHANOVER
        Department of Astronomy, Box 30001/Department 4500, Las Cruces,
                             New Mexico 88003-0001
                           E-mail: nchanove@nmsu.edu

                                  D. M. KUEHN
  Department of Physics, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas 66762

                                  D. BANFIELD
      Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853

                                   T. MOMARY
         Earth and Space Sciences Division, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
        California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109

                                  R. F. BEEBE
        Department of Astronomy, Box 30001/Department 4500, Las Cruces,
                             New Mexico 88003-0001

                                 K. H. BAINES
         Earth and Space Sciences Division, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
        California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109

                                P. D. NICHOLSON
      Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853

                                      AND

                         A. A. SIMON AND A. S. MURRELL
        Department of Astronomy, Box 30001/Department 4500, Las Cruces,
                             New Mexico 88003-0001


                                   ABSTRACT

     The world-wide observing campaign of the Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9
     (SL9) impacts into Jupiter during July 1994 has led to an
     unprecedented quantity of imaging data, predominantly in the visible
     to near-infrared wavelength regime.  In an effort to provide reference
     brightness values for Jupiter at all latitudes, we present a
     compilation of absolute reflectivity scans along the jovian central
     meridian during the impact epoch.  Images from both Earth-orbiting and
     ground-based telescopes were photometrically calibrated and analyzed
     to provide as much spatial resolution and wavelength coverage as
     possible.  This fundamental reference will be made available to the
     entire planetary science community as a means to photometrically
     reduce uncalibrated data from the SL9 impacts via the Planetary Data
     System (PDS).  Until the entire data set is ingested into the PDS, it
     will be available through a World Wide Web site and the AAS CD-ROM
     Series.