An asteroid discovered one day earlier by Yeung was given the name 26733 Nanavisitor by the IAU in honor of Farrell's DS9 co-star, Nana Visitor.
The Črni Vrh Observatory (Observatorij Črni Vrh, IAU code 106) is located in Western Slovenia, close to the settlement Črni Vrh, near the town of Idrija.
The International Astronomical Union honoured the rocketry pioneer by naming a crater on the moon Kibal'chich.
In November 2009, Wardian finished third in the IAU World 50K championships held on the island of Gibraltar.
On January 30 and January 31, 1997, Takao Kobayashi observed an object, P/1997 B1 (Kobayashi), which was initially thought to be a minor planet and was reported to the IAU as such by S. Nakano.
Taaffe proposed the name Vanth for the moon of dwarf planet Orcus to its discoverer Mike Brown, which was approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
In 2007, after the IAU announced its controversial decision on the definition of planet, Soter published an article in Scientific American in which he outlined a mathematical formulation, the "planetary discriminant", to describe how the IAU's requirement that a planet must have "cleared its neighborhood" of other objects might be applied in practice.
Van Vleck Observatory (VVO, IAU code 298) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Wesleyan University.
Furthermore, the honorary president of the congress became Prof. Pier Ugo Calzolari who is the former Rector of Bologna University and the Vice President of International Association of Universities (IAU).