CREATION of the Working Group on Natural Planetary Satellites.

During the first session of Commission 20 (F.K. Edmondson, president) 
on August 24, 1973 in Sydney, Australia at the IAU General Assembly, 
the creation of the Working Group was discussed and proposed as follows.

There was then some discussion of the desirability of appointing a
Working Group devoted to the motions of satellites. Although the study 
of satellites is indicated in the name of the Commisssion, satellites 
have habitually been de-emphasized in relation to minor planets and comets. 
On the other hand, the reality of space missions to the outer planets had
now made it very necessary to overhaul the theories of the motions of the 
satellites. The meeting agreed that the appointment of a Working Group on 
the Orbits and Ephemerides of Satellites would be very appropriate, and the
following members were proposed for the group: B. Morando (chairman),
K. Aksnes, YU V. Batrakov, S. Ferraz-Mello, J. Kovalevsky, J.L. Sagnier
and G.A. Wilkins; J.D. Mulholland and J. Lieske were co-opted as consulting 
members.