About us

extrasolar-planets.com
Norbertstr.4

D-59067 Hamm

Tel.: +49 (0) 421 / 24289032
E-Mail.: webmaster [at] astris.de

German tax number: 322 / 5230 / 1105
Sales tax identification number: DE 236369152

Administrator:

Sven Piper (http://de.linkedin.com/pub/sven-piper/16/171/892)

Chief editorial department

Frank Erhardt (2005-2008)

Guest authors:

Dr. Norbert Gasch

Dr. Silke Mercel

History:

Our 1st version of our Astronomy and Astronautic website launched on 13th August 2001 under the domain name www.astris.de (which we still use for our German version). Unfortunately the biggest European aerospace company EADS/Astrium sued us for our trademark rights on the name "Astris" because of an alleged danger of confusion with their name "Astrium". Allthough many terms begin with "Astr" like ASTRonomy and ASTRophysic. As a result of the danger of a preliminary injunction we changed our website to www.extrasolar-planets.com. Finally we lost our trademark rights but we kept our domain www.astris.de.

We Support:

With our advertising revenue we support a lot of environmental protection and animal protection organisations like WWF, IWAF, PETA,...