IAU SYMPOSIUM 263
ICY BODIES IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- 3-7/August/2009
An interdisciplinary meeting aimed to discuss the geochemistry, physics, morphology (roundish versus irregular shapes), and internal differentiation of the icy bodies of the solar system (comets, trans-neptunian objects, satellites of the outer planets, Centaurs, Trojans and transition objects in the asteroid belt), their accretion and transport within the different regions of the solar system, from near-Earth to the Oort cloud, and their suitability for sustaining and delivering life forms.
Scientific Organizing Committee
Antonella Barucci (France)
Humberto Campins (USA)
Julio A. Fernández (co-chair, Uruguay)
Sylvio Ferraz-Mello (co-chair, Brazil)
Martha P. Haynes (IAU, ex-officio)
Zoran Knezevic (Serbia)
Karen Meech (USA)
Keith Noll (USA)
Dina Prialnik (Israel)
Hans Rickman (Sweden)
Rita Schulz (co-chair, The Netherlands)
Imre Toth (Hungary)
Giovanni B. Valsecchi (Italy)
Jun-ichi Watanabe (Japan)
