The Astronomical Institute of Romanian Academy celebrated its centenary in April 2008. It was the best opportunity for the organization of an anniversary international conference, with more than 100 participants, which provided a forum for a detailed presentation of the scientific results obtained in this long period of time, as well as for an ample exchange of scientific ideas with researchers of the European and international astronomical community. The conference 'œExploring The Solar System and The Universe' was the most important astronomical scientific meeting ever organized in Romania. Its main goal was twofold: to bring the state-of-art Romanian astronomical research to the attention of the international astronomical community, and to gather together outstanding specialists, in order to provide a general image of what today's astronomy means. It has covered all fields approached by Romanian astronomy (celestial mechanics, astrometry, solar physics, stellar astrophysics, extragalactic astronomy, cosmology, astronomy history, education, and development), which are part of modern astronomical research. Among the more than 100 participants from 23 countries all over the world, the conference has gathered together many top specialists in the aforementioned domains.

Symposium 1: History of Romanian Astronomy, and Education by Astronomy in the European Framework
100 Years and More of Romanian Astronomy	p. 3
Discovering Astronomy 50 Years Ago	p. 14
Astronomy at the Observatoire de Paris at the Time of Notara's Visit	p. 20
Educational Actions of Some Greek Scholars in Romania: End of 16th - Beginning of 19th Century	p. 24
Romanian-Serbian Collaboration in Astronomy	p. 32
The Beginning of the Modern Astrophysical Researches in the Bucharest Astronomical Observatory	p. 39
Cosmology in the Bucharest Observatory	p. 46
Romanian Solar Physics Research within the Framework of International Cooperation (1955-2005)	p. 50
The First Astronomical Observatory in Cluj-Napoca	p. 55
Romanian Contributions to the International Heliophysical Year	p. 59
Romania before the International Year of Astronomy	p. 63
Moments of Astronomy Education in Bucharest	p. 67
Bucharest-Nikolaev Astronomical Observatories' Collaboration in Astronomy	p. 72
Rigas Velestinlis and Astronomy in his "Anthology of Physics"	p. 74
Astronomy - Connected Scientific Works in Early Transylvania and Banat	p. 76
Astronomy in Fortress of Oradea	p. 78
Decorative Elements with Astronomical Subjects on Medieval Buildings in Transylvania	p. 80
Remember on Some among Those Who Worked in the Bucharest Astronomical Observatory	p. 82
Astrometry Knowledge in Geodetic Education	p. 85
Astronomy Education in France	p. 87
Symposium 2: Celestial Mechanics and Astrometry Today
Virial Theorem, Dark Matter, and N-Body Problems	p. 93
Saari's Conjecture in Celestial Mechanics	p. 101
Constant Inertia Trajectories: On Saari's Conjecture and More	p. 112
A Pitchfork Bifurcation at Infinity in a Generalized Henon-Heiles Model	p. 116
Symmetries in N-body Problem	p. 126
On the Local Equivalence between Manev and Kepler Problems	p. 133
Manev's Field Problem in Contemporary Science	p. 137
3-D Motions in the Field of Two Rotating Oblate Magnetic Dipoles	p. 142
Combination of Space- and Ground-based Astrometric Observations to Create Astrometric Catalogs	p. 147
The LQAC Compilation of the Quasars Catalogues	p. 154
Astrometry in the Uranian System of Satellites	p. 159
Dust Particles of Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 During Its Return in 2006	p. 163
Position Observations of NEAs at the RTT150	p. 167
Ground Based Science of ESA's Rosetta Mission Targets: (21) Lutetia and (2867) Steins	p. 171
A Pilot Astrometric Survey of 59 Northern ICRF Radio-Sources	p. 175
Narrow Field Astrometry with Different Quality CCD Cameras	p. 179
Results of CCD Observations of Ecliptic Zone in Nikolaev Observatory	p. 183
Astrometric Plates in the Bucharest and Cluj Observatories Archives	p. 187
Qualitative Study of the Plates Observed with the Photographic Equatorial of Bucharest Observatory since 1930	p. 192
Decadal Oscillations of the Earth Rotation	p. 197
Spatial Families of Orbits in 2D Conservative Fields	p. 201
On the Elliptic Restricted Three-Body Problem	p. 203
Euler Cone Aperture in a Special Euler-Poinsot Case	p. 205
Chaotic Variation of the Capture Effect around the Weak Stability Boundary	p. 208
The Dumb-Bell's Restricted, Photogravitational, Circular Three-Body Problem	p. 210
Measuring and Scanning Methods in Astrometric Processing of the Photographic Plates	p. 212
Geodetic Astronomy and Modern Astrometry Developments	p. 214
Earth Rotation Response to ENSO Events	p. 216
Influence of AAM and OAM on the Universal Time Variations	p. 218
Recovering Information from Photographic Plates	p. 220
Astronomical Principles of Satellite Positioning	p. 222
Symposium 3: Dynamics of Solar Atmosphere and Heliosphere
A New Method for Measuring Solar Activity Rotation	p. 227
Realistic Simulation of Local Solar Supergranulation	p. 234
Understanding the Solar Chromosphere	p. 238
Predicting the Onset of Solar Eruptions	p. 245
A Comparison of the Acoustic Hardness of Acoustically Active and Non-Active Solar Flares	p. 252
Effects of Large Solar Events on Atmospheric Drag of Earth Artificial Satellites	p. 256
Magnetic Field Changes Preceding Filament Eruptions and Coronal Mass Ejections	p. 260
Conditions for the Formation of CMEs Associated with Filament Eruptions	p. 268
Multiwavelengths Study of Active Region 09778	p. 272
Observing, Modeling and Predicting the Effects of Solar Radio Bursts on Radio Communications	p. 277
Oscillations in Coronal Structures: Recent Progress	p. 284
Magnetic Flux Emergence and Shearing Motions as CME Trigger Mechanisms	p. 291
Contributions to the Sun-Heliosphere Studies Using SOHO and Ulysses Data	p. 298
Mass Estimates and Wave Propagation for the Eruptive Event of 8th of January 2002	p. 309
Standing Waves in a Solar Periodic Structures	p. 314
On the Origin of Turbulent Fields in Interplanetary Plasmas	p. 318
A CME Sequence Investigation, August 14-15 2001	p. 323
Models for Heavy Tailed Data and Applications	p. 328
The Study of AR09767 and Its Neighborhood	p. 333
Symposium 4: Stellar Astrophysics, Extragalactic Astronomy, and Cosmology
Modelling Pulsations of Magnetic Ap Stars	p. 337
Pulsational Stability of Rotating Stars	p. 344
Looking into B Star Interiors by Means of Asteroseismology	p. 351
Exoplanets: An Overview	p. 358
Asteroseismology - Studying Stellar Structure	p. 365
Extragalactic Globular Clusters: Tracers of Galaxy Evolution	p. 373
Dust in Galaxies	p. 380
Star Formation and Evolution of Galaxies	p. 387
Seismology of the Universe - The Inverse Method in Cosmology	p. 393
Galaxy Pairs and Groups in the AGNs' Environments	p. 400
Magnetic Field Study in Single Late Giants	p. 405
Electron-Impact Broadening of Ar I 737.212 nm Spectral Line for Stellar Atmospheres Research	p. 408
Stark Broadening of O V 1371 A Line in Stellar Atmospheres	p. 410
Exoplanet Transits: Orbit and Size Estimations	p. 412
First Ground-Based Observations of the Eclipsing Binary V449 Aur Made at Bucharest Observatory	p. 414
The Beta Cephei Type Variable Star BW Vulpeculae	p. 416
PHEMU 2003 CAMPAIGN - CCD Observations made at Cluj-Napoca Astronomical Observatory	p. 418
Y Leonis Reloaded	p. 420
About the Star [epsilon] Oph	p. 422
GP Andromedae Survey Byproducts	p. 424
Constructing Exact Solutions for Special Cases of Einstein Equations in Vacuum	p. 426
Knot Based Large Scale Structure Code	p. 430
Recent Spectral Observations of V449 Aur	p. 432
The Study of tile Dynamics of HD 180642 Area, from the CoRoT Programme	p. 435
Author Index	p. 437
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