DIVISION I-III / WORKING GROUP NATURAL PLANETARY SATELLITES

The main goal of the Working Group was to gather astrometric observations made during the triennum as well as old observations not yet published in the data base. The WG encouraged the making of new observations. A Spring School was organized in China in order to teach the observational techniques o...

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Published in:Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 2008-12, Vol.4 (T27A), p.69-71
Main Authors: Arlot, Jean-Eudes, Aksnes, Kaare, Blanco, Carlo, Emelianov, Nikolaj V., Jacobson, Robert A., Krasinsky, George A., Lieske, Jay H., Pascu, Dan, Rapaport, Michel, Sôma, Mitsuru, Seidelmann, P. Kenneth, Taylor, Donald B., Viera-Martins, Roberto, Williams, Gareth V.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Astronomy
Astrophysics
Contributed Papers
Ephemerides
Measurement techniques
Moons
Natural satellites
Science education
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Summary:The main goal of the Working Group was to gather astrometric observations made during the triennum as well as old observations not yet published in the data base. The WG encouraged the making of new observations. A Spring School was organized in China in order to teach the observational techniques of natural satellites to students and young astronomers. New theoretical models of the motion of the satellites and fit of the current models to new observations were used in order to make ephemerides of all the planetary satellites with tools useful for observations such as configurations. These ephemerides named MULTISAT are available at or at .
ISSN:1743-9213
1743-9221
DOI:10.1017/S1743921308025337