IAU Division III

Planetary Systems Sciences

Sciences des Systemes Planetaires

Draft Agenda for the Business Meeting at GA 24

Note Revised Time & Place
This removes conflict with JD 4
Location: Theatre 2, Crawford Building
Time: Saturday, 12 August, 14:00-15:30, 16:00-17:30

Ratification of Plan of Organization

• The division will be managed by the elected president of the division and a Board consisting of 12 members.
• The president of the division is officially elected by the IAU EC. The division's nominee as next president will be elected by the current divisional Board. This election will be organized by the current president of the division.
• The board members will include the presidents of all commissions within the division and the outgoing president of the division.
• Additional board members (currently an additional five) will be elected by the membership of the division at the triennial business meeting.
  • These additional members will include at least two outgoing commission presidents to provide continuity and corporate memory.
  • These additional members will include at least two people not outgoing commission presidents to provide breadth of viewpoint and geographic diversity.
  • The president will submit a slate of nominees to the division. This slate may contain either the required number of candidates or a larger number. All nominees on this slate will have agreed to serve before being nominated.
  • Additional nominees may be proposed from the floor, provided the nominee has expressed a willingness to serve.
• The division may create Working Groups or Committees for specific purposes as it sees fit. This may be done at the triennial business meeting or it may be done by the Board during the triennium.
• During the triennium, the Board will act for the division. Any decisions by the board during the triennium may be brought up for discussion by the membership of the division at the immediately succeding General Assembly.

Election of New Board

The incoming commission presidents will automatically be members regardless of action on the plan of organization since this is required by the IAU Executive Committee. These are expected to include E. Bowell (C20, USA), S. Bowyer (C51, USA), D. Cruikshank (C16, USA), H. Keller (C15, Germany), Ph. Lamy (C21, France), and V. Porubcan (C22, Slovakia).

The president will propose the following slate for election as members of the board. M. A'Hearn (USA, would be automatic if organization plan is approved), W. J. Baggaley (NZ, outgoing pres. C22), C. de Bergh (France, outgoing president C16), J. Watanabe (Japan), I. Williams (UK), V. Zappala (Italy, outgoing pres. C15).

Additional nominations are welcome from the floor, provided the nominee has explicitly stated a willingness to serve.

Divisional Working Groups

• WG on Near Earth Objects - brief report
  • Status of Technical Review Committee
  • Status of Torino scale (only level 0 adopted by TRC) (Binzel?)
  • Status of the survey
  • Appointment of members and chair for 2000-2003
  • Other issues
• Small Bodies Names Committee
  • Status with IAU and name change
  • Endorsement of Names - a new procedure for the next triennium
  • Relation to WG on Planetary System Nomenclature
  • Delegation to board of ratification authority
  • Appointment of members and chair for 2000-2003
• Working Group on Planetary System Nomenclature
  • Endorsement of Names - a new procedure for the next triennium
  • Relation to SBNC
  • Delegation to board of ratification authority
  • Appointment of members and chair for 2000-2003
• Working Group on Extra-Solar Planets - brief report
  • Status of catalog
  • Future activities
  • Position of extra-solar planets in IAU
  • Other issues
  • Appointment of members and chair for 2000-2003

Installation of New Officers

New Business

I'm Tired and I Wanna Go Back to:

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