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Commission
22 is part of the Division
III - Planetary System Sciences of the International Astronomical
Union. Members of Commission 22 are
professional scientists studying bodies in the Solar System smaller
than asteroids and comets, and their interactions with planets. The
subjects of interest are meteoroids, meteoroid streams, interplanetary
dust particles, zodiacal cloud, meteors, meteor trains, meteorites,
tektites, etc.
The Commission is administrated by
President: Pavel
Spurny (Czech Republic)
Vice-president:
Jun-ichi Watanabe (Japan)
Secretary: Jiri
Borovicka (Czech Republic)
and the Organizing Committee.
The following bodies are working under the Commission:
Working group for the collaboration with amateur astronomers
Task Group on Meteor Shower
Nomenclature
IAU
Meteor Data Center
Commission 22 is co-organizing a Meteoroids
conference once in three
years.
Commision 22 publishes regularly a progress
report on the science fields covered by the Commission.
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