The International Astronomical Union is an international association of professional astronomers, at the PhD level and beyond, active in professional research and education in astronomy. Among other activities, it acts as the recognized authority for assigning designations and names to celestial bodies and any surface features on them. More information...
In June 2020 the website iau.org was on the 1,347th place in the ranking of the most reliable and popular sources in multilingual Wikipedia from readers' point of view (PR-score). If we consider only frequency of appearance of this source in references of Wikipedia articles (F-score), this website was on the 86th place in June 2020. From Wikipedians' point of view, "iau.org" is the 216th most reliable source in different language versions of Wikipedia (AR-score).
The website is placed before humanite.fr and after movieplayer.it in multilingual PR ranking of the most reliable sources in Wikipedia.
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