IAU Transactions XXIIIA

TRANSACTIONS OF THE IAU : VOLUME XXIIIA
(the following is excerpted from the book published by Kluwer Academic in 1997)

REPORTS ON ASTRONOMY (1996)

Edited by
IMMO APPENZELLER
General Secretary of the Union

(from p. 51:)

WORKING GROUP FOR PLANETARY SYSTEM NOMENCLATURE

(GROUP DE TRAVAIL POUR LA NOMENCLATURE DU SYSTEM PLANETAIRE)
 
  PRESIDENT: K. Aksnes
  MEMBERS: M. Ya. Marov, B. G. Marsden, P. Moore, D. Morrison, T. C. Owen, V. V. Shevchellko, B. A. Smith
 
  CONSULTANTS: G. A. Burba, L. Caddis, P. Masson, J. Blue
 
 

1. Introduction

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During the triennium most of the nomenclature work has been concerned with classifying and naming features on Venus and the asteroids Gaspra and Ida as observed by the U.S. spacecraft Magellan and Galileo.

l.l. MEMBERSHIP CHANGES

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Joel Russell has retired from the U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff and has been replaced by Jennifer Blue at the same institution as a nomenclature coordinator and a consulting member of the WGPSN.

2. Nomenclature Corrections

(from p. 52:)

In the nomenclature for Mars and Moon, the following corrections are needed:

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2. In IAU Transactions XXIIB, 1994 omit reference to von Braun under Mars nomenclature and change spelling of von Braun’s first name from Werner to Wernher under Lunar nomenclature.

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