scholarly journals DIVISION III / COMMISSION 15 / WORKING GROUP PHYSICAL STUDY OF MINOR PLANETS

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (T26B) ◽  
pp. 131-132
Author(s):  
Walter F. Huebner ◽  
Alberto Cellino ◽  
Edward F. Tedesco ◽  
Dominique Bockelee-Morvan ◽  
Yuehua Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Properties ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Business Meeting ◽  
Minor Planet ◽  
Minor Planets ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Division Iii ◽  
Physical Study

The meeting of the Physical Properties of the Minor Planets Working Group of IAU Commission 15 took place on 24 August, and was devoted to purely scientific matters, since other topics (organization of the Minor Planet WG, need of a new web page, election of the new chairman) had been already discussed during the business meeting of Commission 15, on 22 August. A brief summary of the talks given during the meeting is given in what follows.

scholarly journals IAU Division III Commission 15: Physical Studies of Comets and Minor Planets

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (T26A) ◽  
pp. 121-141
Author(s):  
Edward F. Tedesco ◽  
Walter F. Huebner ◽  
D. Bockelée-Morvan ◽  
A. W. Harris ◽  
N. Kiselev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Group ◽  
Minor Planet ◽  
Minor Planets ◽  
Division Iii ◽  
Working Groups

The report of Commission 15 was prepared primarily by the chairpersons of its two working groups: the Minor Planet Working Group and the Comet Working Group. In particular, the Minor Planet section was created by A. Cellino with a little help from E. Tedesco and the Comet section by T. Yamamoto with the assistance of D. Bockelée-Morvan, W. Huebner, A. Bhardwaj, D. Biesecker, L. Jorda, H. Kawakita, H. U. Keller, H. Kimura, A. Kouchi, and D. Prialnik. E. Tedesco was responsible for the Introduction, final editing, and merging of the two reports.

scholarly journals COMMISSION 15: PHYSICAL STUDY OF COMETS AND MINOR PLANETS

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (T27A) ◽  
pp. 154-162
Author(s):  
Walter F. Huebner ◽  
Alberto Cellino ◽  
Edward F. Tedesco ◽  
Dominique Bockelée-Morvan ◽  
Dmitrij F. Lupishko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Group ◽  
Minor Planet ◽  
Minor Planets ◽  
Physical Study ◽  
Working Groups

The Commission 15 report was prepared primarily by the chairpersons of the two working groups: T. Yamamoto of the Comet Working Group and R. A. Gil-Hutton of the Minor Planet Working Group. In particular, the Comet section was produced by T. Yamamoto with the assistance of D. Bockelée-Morvan, H. Kawakita, and D. Prialnik, while the Minor Planet section was produced by R. A. Gil-Hutton with the assistance of A. Cellino, A. W. Harris (DLR), R. Jedicke, A.-C. Levasseur-Regourd, R. M. Schulz, T. B. Spahr, and P. Vernazza. W. F. Huebner was responsible for the Introduction. The final editing and merging of the various sections and subsections of the report was carried out by the Commission Secretary, D. C. Boice.

scholarly journals Preface: Joint Discussion JD5 From Meteors and Meteorites to their Parent Bodies: Current Status and Future Developments

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (H16) ◽  
pp. 137-137 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Planetary Systems ◽  
Interplanetary Dust ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Minor Planets ◽  
Division Iii ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
Physical Study ◽  
Fundamental Astronomy

The Joint Discussion 5 entitled "From Meteors and Meteorites to their Parent Bodies: Current Status and Future Developments" within the IAU GA 2012 was organized with the coordination of the IAU Division III Planetary Systems Sciences and the IAU Commission N. 22 Meteors, Meteorites & Interplanetary Dust, together with the supports by Divisions I Fundamental Astronomy, Division XII Union-Wide Activities, Commission 4 Ephemerides, Commission 6 Astronomical Telegrams, Commission 8 Astrometry, Commission 15 Physical Study of Comets & Minor Planets, and Commission 20 Positions & Motions of Minor Planets, Comets & Satellites.

scholarly journals 20. Positions and Motions of Minor Planets, Comets and Satellites

1979 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-144
Author(s):  
B. G. Marsden
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Outer Part ◽  
Minor Planet ◽  
Minor Planets ◽  
The Past

The past triennium has been noteworthy for several significant discoveries in the outer part of the solar system. The discovery of the rings of Uranus was inspired by the activities of Commission 20’s new Working Group on Occultations. Although the discovery of a probable Plutonian satellite has not yet been completely confirmed, the implication that Pluto’s mass is only 0.002 earth masses may make it desirable to consider whether Pluto should be relegated to minor-planet status. The orbit of Pluto is in fact not greatly dissimilar to that of the object classified as the new minor planet (2060) Chiron, which was found to have its aphelion near the orbit of Uranus and its perihelion just inside the orbit of Saturn.

scholarly journals COMMISSION 16: PHYSICAL STUDY OF PLANETS & SATELLITES

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (T27B) ◽  
pp. 173-174
Author(s):  
Melissa A. McGrath ◽  
Mark T. Lemmon ◽  
Regis Courtin ◽  
Luisa M. Lara ◽  
Sang Joon Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Business Meeting ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Division Iii ◽  
The Third ◽  
Physical Study ◽  
Commission President

The Business Meeting of IAU Commission 16 was held at the General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro on August 13, 2009. The meeting was called to order at 9:15am by Commission President, Régis Courtin, with 12 members present. Commission 16 now has 312 members, up from 271 at the last General Assembly. It is now the third largest Commission in Division III, after Commission 15 and Commission 51.

scholarly journals COMMISSION 15: PHYSICAL STUDY OF COMETS AND MINOR PLANETS

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (T26B) ◽  
pp. 128-130
Author(s):  
Walter F. Huebner ◽  
Alberto Cellino ◽  
Edward F. Tedesco ◽  
Daniel C. Boice ◽  
Dominique Bockelée-Morvan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Business Meeting ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Minor Planets ◽  
Past President ◽  
Physical Study ◽  
Incoming President

This report of the business meeting at the 2006 IAU GA is based on notes provided by Edward Tedesco, past president, and on the minutes taken by Petrus Jenniskens, secretary of Commission 15 in the triennium 2003 to 2006, with additional notes from the current secretary of Commission 15, Daniel Boice. For political reasons the incoming President, Walter Huebner, was unable to attend the General Assembly.

scholarly journals DIVISION III / SERVICE MINOR PLANET CENTER

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (T27A) ◽  
pp. 183-186
Author(s):  
Timothy B. Spahr ◽  
Gareth V. Williams ◽  
Brian G. Marsden
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Minor Planet ◽  
Minor Planets ◽  
Division Iii ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
University Of Arizona ◽  
The University ◽  
Near Earth Objects

The activity of the Minor Planet Center continued generally to increase during the two triennia covered by this report, principally because of the continuing success of the surveys for near-earth objects. Chief among these has been the Lincoln (Laboratory) Near-Earth Asteroid Research Project, or LINEAR, which is credited with the discovery of slightly more than half of all the minor planets that have been numbered, although since 2005 the Catalina Sky Survey and Mount Lemmon Survey in Arizona and the Siding Spring Survey in New South Wales (all three of which, together with the long-lasting Spacewatch Survey, are operated from the University of Arizona) have come to dominate the field. The total number of observations of minor planets in the MPC's files more than doubled from 14.1 million in mid-2002 to 30.9 million in mid-2005, with almost another doubling, to 55.4 million, in mid-2008.

scholarly journals DIVISION B COMMISSION 6: ASTRONOMICAL TELEGRAMS

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (T29A) ◽  
pp. 90-98
Author(s):  
H. Yamaoka ◽  
D. W. E. Green ◽  
N. N. Samus ◽  
K. Aksnes ◽  
A. C. Gilmore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Group ◽  
Variable Stars ◽  
Business Meeting ◽  
Minor Planet ◽  
Central Bureau ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
General Catalogue

IAU Commission 6 “Astronomical Telegrams” had a single business meeting during Honolulu General Assembly of the IAU. It took place on Tuesday, 11 August 2015. The meeting was attended by Hitoshi Yamaoka (President), Daniel Green (Director of the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, CBAT, via Skype), Steven Chesley (JPL), Paul Chodas (JPL), Alan Gilmore (Canterbury University), Shinjiro Kouzuma (Chukyo University), Paolo Mazzali (Co-Chair of the Supernova Working Group), Elena Pian (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), Marion Schmitz (chair IAU Working Group Designations + NED), David Tholen (University of Hawaii), Jana Ticha (Klet Observatory), Milos Tichy (Klet Observatory), Giovanni Valsecchi (INAF\slash Italy), Gareth Williams (Minor Planet Center). Apologies: Nikolai Samus (General Catalogue of Variable Stars, GCVS).

scholarly journals Commission No. 15: Physical Study of Comets, Minor Planets and Meteorites (Etude Physique des Cometes, des Petites Planetes et des Meteorites)

1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-183
Author(s):  
M. A’Hearn ◽  
L. Kresak ◽  
J. Rahe
Keyword(s):  
Minor Planet ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Minor Planets ◽  
Data Bases ◽  
Meteor Streams ◽  
Physical Study ◽  
Science Session

Tribute is paid to those members of Commission 15 who have passed away since the last General Assembly: Dr. Ludwig BIERMANN, Dr. Nicholas BOBROVNIKOFF, Dr. Richard Heinrich GIESE, Dr. Marie-Therese MARTEL, Dr. Reginald WATERFIELD.The Commission had one Business Session, two Science Sessions on “News in Cometary Research” (organized by C. Arpigny), one Science Session on “News in Minor Planet Research” (organized by A.W. Harris), a Joint Discussion with Commission 20 on “Major Observing Programs and Data Bases” (organized by Y. Kozai and L. Kresak), and a Joint Discussion with Commission 22 on “Interrelation of Meteor Streams, Comets and Asteroids” (organized by P. Babadzhanov and L. Kresak)

DIVISION XII / COMMISSON 5 / WORKING GROUP: FITS

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (T26B) ◽  
pp. 218-218
Author(s):  
William D. Pence ◽  
François Ochsenbein ◽  
Donald C. Wells ◽  
Steven L. Allen ◽  
Mark R. Calabretta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
North American ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Current System ◽  
Business Meeting ◽  
Web Page

The business meeting began with a brief review of the current rules and procedures of the WG, which are documented on the WG web page. Four regional FITS committees have been established by the WG, covering North American, Europe, Japan, and Australian/New Zealand, to provide advice to the WG on pending proposals. While it is recognized that this committee structure might need to be revised to provide representation to other regions, the current system is working well, and there were no motions to make any changes at this time.

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