IAU Transactions XXIA

TRANSACTIONS OF THE IAU : VOLUME XXIA
(the following is excerpted from the book published by Kluwer Academic in 1991)

REPORTS ON ASTRONOMY (1991)

Edited by
DEREK McNALLY
General Secretary of the Union

(from p. 613:)

WORKING GROUP FOR PLANETARY SYSTEM NOMENCLATURE

(GROUP DE TRAVAIL POUR LA NOMENCLATURE DU SYSTEM PLANETAIRE)
  (Committee of the Executive Committee)
 
  PRESIDENT (ACTING): K. Aksnes
  MEMBERS: A. Brahic, M. Fulchignoni, M. Ya. Marov, D. Morrison, T.C. Owen, V.V. Shevchenko, B.A. Smith
  CONSULTANTS: J.M. Boyce, G.A. Burba, P. Masson
  HONORARY MEMBER: P.M. Millman
 
 
  It is with great sadness that we have to report the death on 24 August 1990 of the WG's President Harold Masursky, at the ago of 66.Dr. Masursky is known for his many contributions in planetary science and for his many years of dedicated work in planetary nomenclature. During the interim until the next IAU General Assembly the IAU Executive Committee has appointed K. Aksnes as Acting President of the WG.
 
  Since the last. IAU General Assembly, the WG has held its 18th regular meeting in Paris and Brittany 19-22 October 1989, with all but two WG members present. More informal ad hoc meetings were attended by 3 to 9 WG and Task Group (TG) members in Pasadena on 28 August 1989 during the Voyager Neptune encounter, in Flagstaff on 22 January 1990, in Paris 14 March 1990, and in the Hague 2-3 July 1990. Much of the nomenclature business is carried out by correspondance with increasing use of telefax and e-mail.
 
  During the triennium most of the activity of the WG and the TG's has been centered on the nomenclature on Neptune's satellites and rings as revealed by the Voyager spacecraft. The emphasis is now shifting to Venus in preparation for the detailed radar mapping o[ that planet begun by the Magellan spacecraft in August 1990.
 
  The WG is asking for 111U approval of the following new planetary nomenclature:
 
 

MOON

Name Lat Long Diam (km) Attribute
Crater
Blanchard 58.5S 94.4W 40 J.P.Blanchard (1753-1809) French aeronaut
Bondarenko 17.8S 136.3E 30 V.V. Bondarenko (1937-1961) Soviet student cosmonaut
Konoplev 28.5S 125.5W 25 B.T. Konoplev (1912-1960) Soviet radio engineer
Kramarov 2.3S 98.8W 20 G.M. Kramarov (1887-1970) Soviet space scientist
Murakami 23.3S 140.5W 45 H. Murakami (1872-1947) Japanese physicist/astron.
Pilâtre 60.2S 86.9W 50 R.F. De Pilâtre (1753-1785) French aeronaut
Sternfeld 19.5S 141.5W 110 A.A. Sternfeld (1905-1980) Soviet space scientist
Vinogradov 20.0N 31.2W 15 I.M. Vinogradov (1891-1983) Soviet mathematician