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TRANSACTIONS OF THE IAU : VOLUME XVIIIB
(the following is excerpted from the book published by D. Reidel in 1983)

PROCEEDINGS OF THE EIGHTEENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY (PATRAS 1982)


Table of Contents

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Edited by
RICHARD M. WEST
General Secretary of the Union

(from p. 331:)

WORKING GROUP FOR PLANETARY SYSTEM NOMENCLATURE

(NOMENCLATURE DU SYSTEME PLANETAIRE) (Committee of the Executive Committee)

Report of Meetings on 6 June 1980, 16 April 1981, 16-19 August 1982

PRESIDENT: P.M. Millman

A brief summary of the first two meetings listed above has appeared in Trans. IAU vol XVIII A, p. 669, 1982. A detailed listing of action taken at all three meetings, as approved at the General Assembly in Patras, is given herewith.

One new Latin term has been used in addition to the 32 previously listed in Trans. IAU vols. XVI B and XVII B.

  • COLLIS (Colles) a small hill or knob The plural form is given in brackets.


The current membership in the WGPSN and in the five nomenclature task groups is listed on page 458, this volume.

LUNAR NOMENCLATURE


Table 1. 6 names, approved as assigned to craters on the lunar surface. Positions are given in degrees of latitude and longitude.

BEALS, Carlyle S. 1899-1979 37.1N 086.0E
(replaces Riemann A) Canadian astronomer
BOS, Willem H. van den 1896-1974 05.35 145.8E
Dutch astronomer
JENKINS, Louise 1888-1970 00.7N 078.0E
(replaces Schubert Z) American astronomer
KAO, Ping-Tse 1888-1970 06.7S 087.8E
Taiwanese astronomer
KELDYSH, Mstislav V. 1911-1978 51.5N 044.0E
(replaces Hercules A) Soviet mathematician
RECHT, Albert 1899-1962 09.8N 124.0E
American astronomer


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