Rolan Kiladze

He developed a universal formula for determining the length of the day-night time for distant planets (1965).

Rolan Kiladze calculated the thickness of the rings of the planet Saturn (1969), which was confirmed in 1995 by the observations of the Hubble Space Telescope.

Roland Kiladze suggested that Pluto was still undergoing the process of formation and was still surrounded by particles.

Rolan Kiladze developed a theory about the modern rotations of the planets which was confirmed in 2005 by the discovery of two more moons of Pluto (1986).

Rolan Kiladze with colleagues from St. Petersburg worked out the theory of movement of geosynchronous satellites (2001).

Rolan Kiladze found the criterion for predicting an asteroid collision with Earth based on only two positional observations (2004).

R. I. Kiladze is the author of the monograph “Modern Rotation of Planets, as a Result of Development of Small Particles” (1986), “Theory of Movement of Geostationary Satellites” (2008) and the textbook for students “Theoretical Astrophysics.” He is the author of three catalogues for geostationary satellites and more than 150 scientific articles.

Kiladze, R. I., Observations of Saturn's rings at the moments of the earth's transit through their plane 81966), Abastumanskaya Astrofiz.

Kiladze, R. I., On the role of near-planetary particle swarms in the origin of spin, Abastumanskaia Astrofizicheskaia Observatoriia, Biulleten', no.

Kiladze, R. I., Present day rotation of planets as a result of development of small particle strings around them, Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory (monography), 1986.

Sochilina, Alla S., Grigoriev, Konstantin V., Vershkov, Andrei N., Kiladze, Rolan I., Hoots, Felix R., France, Richard, On statistics of changes in rates of drift among uncontrolled geostationary objects,  In: Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Space Debris, 19–21 March 2001, Darmstadt, Germany.

Vershkov, A., Grigoriev, K., Kiladze, R., Sochilina, A., A model of distribution of geostationary satellite fragments after explosion, In: Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Space Debris, 19–21 March 2001, Darmstadt, Germany.

Sochilina, A., Kiladze, R., Grigoriev, K., Vershkov, A., On orbital evolution of exploded object fragments, 34th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, The Second World Space Congress, held 10–19 October 2002 in Houston, TX, USA., meeting abstract, id.968, 2002.

Sochilina, A., Kiladze, R., Grigoriev, K., Molotov, I., Vershkov, A., On orbital evolution of exploded object fragments, 34th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, The Second World Space Congress, held 10–19 October 2002 in Houston, TX, USA., meeting abstract, id.968, 2002.

Sochilina, A., Kiladze, R., Grigoriev, K., Molotov, I., Vershkov, A., On the orbital evolution of explosion fragments, Advances in Space Research, Volume 34, Issue 5, p. 1198–1202, 2004.

Kiladze crater on Pluto