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Planetary Systems Sciences

Sciences des Systèmes Planétaires

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Commissions of the Division

IAU Division III is composed of seven commissions, all of which are related, at least in part and in one way or another to the study of things in orbit around the sun or around other stars - planets and life thereon, comets, asteroids, zodiacal dust (and related sky background), etc. You can contact the individual commissions and their officers by following the links to the commissions' own web pages.

Commission 53 was just created by the IAU during the General Assembly in Prague and they do not yet have a web page (i.e., the link below goes nowhere). Other commissions will be considering mergers during the coming triennium. Thus this page may evolve during the triennium.

Commission 15: Physical Study of Comets and Minor Planets/L'Étude Physique des Comètes et des Petites Planètes. President, Walter F. Huebner (USA).

Commission 16: L'Étude Physique des Planètes et des Satellites/Physical Studies of Planets and Satellites. President, Régis Courtin (France).

Commission 20: Positions and Motions of Minor Planets, Comets, and Satellites/Positions et Mouvements des Petites Planètes, des Comètes, et des Satellites. President, Julio A. Fernández (Uruguay).

Commission 21: Lumière du Ciel Nocturne/The Light of the Night Sky. President, Adolf N. Witt (USA).

Commission 22: Meteors and Interplanetary Dust/Météors et la Poussière Interplanétaire. President, Pavel Spurny (Czech Rep.).

Commission 51: Bioastronomie/Bioastronomy. President, Alan P. Boss (USA).

Commission 53: Extrasolar Planets. President, Michel Mayor (Switzerland).

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Created: 1997/09/09, mfa; Last Update: (Friday, 16-Feb-2007 13:22:32 EST), mfa