DIVISION III: PLANETARY SYSTEMS SCIENCE

Galactic planetary science

Planetary science beyond the boundaries of our Solar System is today in its infancy. Until a couple of decades ago, the detailed investigation of the planetary properties was restricted to objects orbiting inside the Kuiper Belt. Today, we cannot ignore that the number of known planets has increased by two orders of magnitude nor that these planets resemble anything but the objects present in o...

Lunar and Planetary Science

Merging the Astrophysics and Planetary Science Information Systems

Conceptually exoplanet research has one foot in the discipline of Astrophysics and the other foot in Planetary Science. Research strategies for exoplanets will require efficient access to data and information from both realms. Astrophysics has a sophisticated, well integrated, distributed information system with archives and data centers which are interlinked with the technical literature via t...

Planetary Science: A Lunar Perspective

Monumenti, Musei e Gallerie Pontificie. This illustrates the state of planetary observation at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Most of the succeeding advances in this field have occurred in the past decade. Preface The technical triumph of manned landings on the Moon and the return of samples from the lunar surface has provided scientists with a unique opportunity to advance our unders...

Lunar and Planetary Science XXll

s of papers submitted to the Twenty-Second Lunar and Planetary Science Conference