| Preface and Highlights | |
| Historical Remarks | |
| Scientific and Local Organizing Committees | |
| Photograph of Symposium Participants | |
| List of Participants | |
| Resolutions Adopted | |
| Hipparcos, Three Years After Launch | p. 1 |
| Analysis of Hipparcos Measurements: Positions, Proper Motions, Parallaxes | p. 11 |
| Inertial Frame Determination from Hipparcos Observations of Minor Planets | p. 19 |
| Hipparcos Photometry of Minor Planets | p. 25 |
| A CCD Modulation Detector for a Second Hipparcos Mission | p. 31 |
| Astrometry and Photometry of 400 Million Stars Brighter Than 18 Mag | p. 37 |
| Astrometry with the HST Fine Guidance Sensors | p. 47 |
| Periodical Errors of Hipparcos Star Abscissae | p. 59 |
| An Observational Method for the Lower Latitude Meridian Circle (LLMC) with a CCD Camera | p. 61 |
| Recent Advances with the USNO (Flagstaff) Transit Telescope | p. 65 |
| Observations of Faint Stars Deep to 16th Magnitude with CCD Meridian Circle | p. 71 |
| CCD Parallaxes for Southern Very Low Luminosity Stars | p. 75 |
| The DCMT in Progress | p. 79 |
| Improvement of Type II Photoelectric Astrolabe and Primary Results | p. 85 |
| Realization of a Single Image with Autocollimation for PHA I | p. 89 |
| The Present Status of Preparing the New Reduction of the Past Astrometric Observations to Obtain the Earth Orientation Parameters in the Hipparcos Reference System | p. 95 |
| Perturbing Effects in Past Optical Astrometric Data. Statistical Modelisation and Separation | p. 101 |
| The Third Catalogue of Nearby Stars - Results and Conclusions | p. 107 |
| Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Digital Image Center | p. 113 |
| On the Current State of the Mahis Construction | p. 117 |
| On the Precision of Star Positions Observation Made with the Pulkovo HMC | p. 119 |
| CCD Astrometry with Wide-Field Astrographs | p. 125 |
| The Circle Reading System for DCMT | p. 129 |
| Researches on the Accuracy of the DCMT Circle Reading System | p. 130 |
| Cerga Photoelectric Astrolabe - Computational and Instrumental Improvements | p. 131 |
| Astrometric Observations After 1988.0 | p. 132 |
| Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry Applied to Geophysics | p. 133 |
| Applications of Few-Hundred Microarcsecond VLBI Astrometry: Planetary Relativistic Deflection, PPN Gamma Determination and Deep-Space Tracking | p. 145 |
| The Mark IV VLBI Data-Acquisition and Correlation System | p. 151 |
| Astrometry and Geodesy from VLBI | p. 159 |
| An Assessment of the Accuracy of the Deep Space Network Extragalactic Reference Frame | p. 173 |
| Eurasian-Pacific-North American Plate Motions from Very Long Baseline Interferometry | p. 179 |
| Geodetic VLBI Experiment at 22 GHZ Band Between Japan and Italy | p. 185 |
| The VLBI Complex "Quasar": Current State and Perspective | p. 191 |
| Monitoring Earth Rotation and Polar Motion Using Space VLBI: A Feasibility Study | p. 195 |
| Space VLBI Project VSOP | p. 203 |
| Determining Ionospheric Total Electron Content in Using Space VLBI | p. 207 |
| VLBI Relativistic Time Delay Model with Picosecond Precision | p. 211 |
| Comparison and Calculation of Different Atmospheric Delay Models Using Atmospheric Parameters of VLBI Stations of China | p. 212 |
| High-Precision Parallaxes and Their Astrophysical Applications | p. 213 |
| Is the Vorticity Vector of the Galaxy Perpendicular to the Galactic Plane? | p. 219 |
| The Stellar Kinematics in the Main Meridional Section of the Galaxy | p. 231 |
| Research of the Kinematic of the Gould Belt | p. 237 |
| Precession and Stellar Kinematic Parameters from the Proper Motions of the AGK3U | p. 243 |
| Absolute Proper Motion of Galactic Globular Clusters | p. 249 |
| A New Proper Motion Survey of the Pleiades Cluster | p. 255 |
| The Velocity Distribution and the Masses of Stars from the Proper Motions in the Stellar Clusters | p. 261 |
| Comparing Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical Methods for Studying the Velocity Distributions of Population I Stars | p. 265 |
| The Observation of Counterjets of Quasars and Galaxies | p. 271 |
| One Year of Daily Satellite Orbit and Polar Motion Estimation for Near Real Time Crustal Deformation Monitoring | p. 279 |
| Difference Filter and its Application in Separating Periodic Components of Polar Motion | p. 285 |
| Variations of Short Periodical Oscillations of Earth Rotation | p. 291 |
| The Sea Level Change of the Tropical Pacific and the Rotation of the Earth | p. 297 |
| Is the Chandler Period Stable? | p. 303 |
| An Analysis of Tidal Variations in the Length of Day | p. 309 |
| Effects of Mantle Anelasticity on the Chandler Wobble | p. 311 |
| Rapid Variation of Lod and Solar Flares | p. 317 |
| Comparative Analysis of Structures of Some Astrometrical and Geophysical Observational Series | p. 323 |
| Influence of Ephemeris Uncertainties and Relativity Modeling on Lunar Laser Ranging Data Analysis | p. 329 |
| Prediction of the Length of Day from Atmospheric Angular Momentum with LSTAR Model | p. 335 |
| Long-Term Variations of Earth's Orbital Geometry and Its Effect on the Climate System | p. 336 |
| Characteristics of 30-70 Day Fluctuations of the Length of Day and Atmospheric Angular Momentum | p. 337 |
| 50-Day Oscillation of the Earth Rotation and Solar Activity | p. 338 |
| Completion of the FK5 Extension and a Preliminary Investigation of the FK5 System | p. 339 |
| IAU North Poles and Rotation Parameters for Natural Satellites | p. 351 |
| Issues of Time for Reference Systems | p. 357 |
| Departure Point, Earth's Rate of Rotation and Coordinate Transformation in Quasi-Inertial Geocentric Equatorial Coordinate System (QIGECS) | p. 363 |
| Suggestion on the Problem of Time | p. 371 |
| Accuracy Assessment of Hipparcos Optical and VLA Radio Positions of Stars | p. 377 |
| Deficiencies in the Nutation Model from VLBI Observations | p. 381 |
| "Proper Motions" of Extragalactic Sources and the Precession Constant | p. 387 |
| Transformations Among CISs Defined by Various ERP Series | p. 391 |
| Priori Estimates of the FK5 Covariance Functions | p. 397 |
| Equator and Equinox Solutions from Meridian Circle Observations of the Sun, Mercury and Venus at the Cape of Good Hope and the U.S. Naval Observatory from 1907 to 1971 | p. 403 |
| Comparison of the Catalogs ACRS, PPM, and Tokyo PMC | p. 404 |
| The International GPS Service for Geodynamics (IGS) and the Terrestrial Reference Frame | p. 405 |
| The Contribution of the IERS to Astrophysics and Geodynamics | p. 406 |
| The Conventional Geocentric Reference System Within the Framework of Relativity | p. 407 |
| AIST Project: Scientific and Technological Foundations | p. 415 |
| Prospects for the Application of a Mobile VLBI System in China | p. 421 |
| A New Method of Relative Coordinate-and-Time Determination | p. 427 |
| Realization of a Regional Terrestrial Reference Frame: A GPS Campaign | p. 432 |
| Astrometric Latitude and Time Observational Database at Shanghai Observatory | p. 433 |
| Report on the World Space Congress | p. 435 |
| Author Index | p. 439 |
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