| Acronym | Meaning |
| CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific And Industrial Research Organization |
| AFIS | Automated Fingerprint Identification System |
| VSS | Volatile Suspended Solids |
| COSMIC | Computer Oriented Structure Models From Inadequate Derived Coupling Data |
| ASE | Aromatic Stabilization Energy |
| LCMTO | Linear Combination Of Muffin-tin Orbitals |
| CRAF | Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby |
| CDOM | Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter |
| ECOIN | European Core Inventory |
| ISCN | International System For Human Cytogenetic Nomenclature |