ROMANIAN  ASTRONOMICAL  JOURNAL

Vol. 18, No. 1, 2008

C O N T E N T S

Magda STAVINSCHI, Vasile MIOC, The Bucharest Observatory of the Astronomical
Institute at Centenary: 100 Years and More of Romanian Astronomy .………………. ..............    3-20

Ponsamy SRIRAMACHANDRAN, Ramachandran SHANMUGAVEL, Narayanan
RAJAMANICKAM, Somashekar Pundalikarao BAGARE, Evaluation of
Astrophysically Useful Parameters for LaO Molecule ………………………………...                 21-28

Ovidiu C. FURDUI, On the Stability of Planetary Orbits with a Modified Hermite Integrator ..        29-40

Vasile MIOC, Rodica ROMAN, Libration Points in Fock’s Restricted Three-Body Problem ...      41-49

Mohamed Adel SHARAF, Bielliptic Transfer with Plane Changes ……………….…………..        51-60

Mohamed Adel SHARAF, Determination of a Celestial Plane Orientation: Application to Milky Way
……………………………………………………………………………...                                61-67
Gheorghe BOCŞA, Milcho TSVETKOV, Precise Determination of Minor Planet Positions …         69-76

Ivan KOTLIAROV, New Laws of Planetary Distances ……………………………………….      77-83

Gerd HELMECKE, Ulrich HERKENRATH, From Synchronization of the Atom to

Organization of the Universe via Gravitation …………………………………………..                    85-91


MISCELLANEA

The International Conference “Exploring the Solar System and the Universe”, Bucharest,
Romania, 8–12 April 2008 (Vasile Mioc, Cristiana Dumitrache, Nedelia Antonia Popescu)
………………………………………………………………………………...                              93-99