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Тема: IAU e-Newsletter - NameExoWorlds: An IAU Worldwide Contest to Name Exoplanets and their Host Stars
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July 2014
9 July 2014 — Latest Press Release NameExoWorlds: An IAU Worldwide Contest to Name Exoplanets and their Host Stars
Dear Colleague,
Welcome to the revamped version of the IAU e-Newsletter. As the IAU General Secretary, I feel proud and privileged to share with you this new communication platform, in which we will strive to bring you interesting information and alert you to important deadlines related with the International Astronomical Union, its activities and the activities of its members.
As part of a new communication concept from the IAU, we have overhauled our main website. If you have not seen it already, please take a moment to visit
www.iau.org/
There, items formerly known as News are now named Announcements , comprising a broader range of topics, with more in-depth content, and intended to promote the image of a “dynamic” IAU.
For instance, I would like to mention three important new projects of the IAU, due for 2015, that the Executive Committee endorsed at its recent meeting in Canberra, Australia (30 April 30–2 May, 2014), and which will be implemented very soon and that you will be able to follow from the IAU home page:
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A new global, very ambitious project for involving the public in the naming of exoplanetary systems ; *
The active participation in the International Year of Light 2015 (based on the IAU experience legacy from the International Year of Astronomy 2009 ); *
The Reform of Commissions, proposed to the EC by Division Presidents, in fulfillment of Resolution B4 approved at the Beijing General Assembly (2012), that created the new IAU Divisional structure.
A dedicated Announcement has been been issued on this last point, of course very important for the IAU community.
One consequence of this overhaul is that the "Information Bulletin", published twice a year up to now in paper form (and downloadable as a .pdf file) will also evolve. It will be published at the end of each calendar year, and will be a compilation of all the Announcements and Press Releases published during that year. Some more administrative material, of interest to IAU members only, may be published as well (such as draft minutes of Executive Committees, internal reports, etc.). The idea is therefore that the "Information Bulletin" will become, over the years, an repository of all the IAU activities and news items.
Finally I would like to encourage everyone in the community to send us suggestions for IAU news that can be published as either Press Releases or Announcements. The guidelines for these news items are available here . They will not only be published on iau.org, but will also be sent out as part of future IAU Newsletters like this one.
Thierry Montmerle
IAU General Secretary
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NameExoWorlds: An IAU Worldwide Contest to Name Exoplanets and their Host Stars
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