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杨彬 ¹ 高健 ^2,1 朱进 ¹
(1 中国科学院国家天文台北京 100012)
(2 北京师范大学天文系北京 100875)

Yang Bin ¹ Gao Jian ^2,1 Zhu Jin ¹
(1 National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012)
(2 Department of Astronomy, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875)

The most important international conference on asteroid during the recent years, “Asteroids 2001: from Piazzi to the 3rd millennium”, was held in Palermo, Italy, during June 11~16, 2001. Most of the conventioneers were experts in different directions of minor planet study. The aims of the conference were to present the current understanding of asteroid science, the main topics concerned the main belt asteroids with single sessions devoted to the interrelationship with Kuiper Belt and Near-Earth Objects. The main topics of the conference are briefly introduced, with emphasis on the new results and new problems in the past decade.