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''History and Documents''<br /> [[Image:nomenclature.jpg|nomenclature.jpg]]<br /> <br /> The second person who made a map of the Moon used different names than the first person did. Since then there has been a constant struggle to devise and maintain lunar nomenclature systems that are consistent and unambiguous. We collect here many of the basic documents concerning the history of lunar nomenclature. Additionally, on each wiki page we attempt to provide information for each named feature.<br /> <br /> <div id="toc"> | ''History and Documents''<br /> [[Image:nomenclature.jpg|nomenclature.jpg]]<br /> <br /> The second person who made a map of the Moon used different names than the first person did. Since then there has been a constant struggle to devise and maintain lunar nomenclature systems that are consistent and unambiguous. We collect here many of the basic documents concerning the history of lunar nomenclature. Additionally, on each wiki page we attempt to provide information for each named feature.<br /> <br /> <div id="toc"> | ||
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Revision as of 16:40, 15 April 2018
Contents
Lunar Nomenclature
History and Documents
The second person who made a map of the Moon used different names than the first person did. Since then there has been a constant struggle to devise and maintain lunar nomenclature systems that are consistent and unambiguous. We collect here many of the basic documents concerning the history of lunar nomenclature. Additionally, on each wiki page we attempt to provide information for each named feature.
IAU Planetary Gazetteer
IAU nomenclature
Major Maps and Books
Primary References Affecting IAU Nomenclature
1647: Hevelius
1651: Riccioli
1775: Tobias Mayer
1791, 1802: Schröter
1834: Beer and Mädler
1876: Neison
1878: Schmidt
1913: Collated List
1935: Blagg and Müller
1938: Who's Who in the Moon
1960-67: LAC maps
1962-6: System of Lunar Craters
1963: Rectified Lunar Atlas
1970s: LTO maps
1982: NASA RP-1097
1994: Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
2006: USGS Digital Atlas
Other Influential Nomenclature Guides
1895: Elger
1955: Wilkins and Moore
1971: NASA SP-241
1971: Bowker and Hughes
1990 & 2004: Rükl
2004: Clementine Atlas
IAU Names Chronology
Excerpts from Transactions of the IAU
This is a major resource!
A Nomenclature Zoo
Statistics, trivia and odd specimens from the IAU Nomenclature
Nomenclature Lists
Names sorted by country, gender, religion, errors; unofficial and nicknames
Invalid NASA Names
Provisional names on NASA maps that were never adopted by the IAU
Landing Sites
Named features at the landing sites for Lunar missions.
IAU Name Origins
Who named the features, and who they intended to honor
- Names from G.B. Riccioli
- Names from J.H. Schroter
- Names from J.H. Madler
- Names from W.R. Birt and J. Lee
- Names from E.N. Neison
- Names from J.F.J. Schmidt
- Names from J.N. Krieger and R. Konig
- Names from J.H. Franz
- Names from J.P.H. Fauth and E. Debes
- Names from F.C. Lamech
- Names from H.P. Wilkins (and Patrick Moore)
- Names from several other selenographers (short lists)
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
Whitaker, 1999: Mapping and Naming the Moon
