AAS is an acronym for "acetylsalicylic acid", "Asociación Amigos del Suelo" or "Asociación Argentina de Sommeliers", and in other languages for "Agrupació Astronòmica de Sabadell" or "American Astronautical Society", for example. See aspirin. It is the name of an asteroid, precisely as a tribute to the latter astronautical society. The village of Aas is a small village in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department (France). 4th_ IATA airport code for Apalapsili ( Province of Papua Highlands, Indonesia ) .