IAU Transactions XXVB

TRANSACTIONS OF THE IAU : VOLUME XXVB
(the following is excerpted from the book published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 2007 )

PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - 2003

Edited by
ODDBJØRN ENGVOLD
General Secretary of the Union

(from p. 115:)

WORKING GROUP FOR PLANETARY SYSTEM NOMENCLATURE

(GROUPE DE TRAVAIL POUR LA NOMENCLATURE DU SYSTEME PLANETAIRE)

PRESIDENT: Kaare Aksnes
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: G.A. Burba, D.P. Cruikshank, M.Ya. Marov, E.G. Marsden, T.C. Owen, V.V. Shevchenko, B.A. Smith CONSULTANTS: J. Blue, J. Blunck, L. Gaddis, P. Masson, M. Robinson

1. Attendance

The WGPSN met in one public session with 4 of the members present (Aksnes, Cruikshank, Marsden and Owen) during the XXVth IAU General Assembly in Sydney, Australia in July 2003. Apologies had been received from the other 4 members and 5 consultants named above. In attendance were also 6 members of the Mercury, Venus and Small Bodies Task Groups, the incoming Division III President (I. Williams) and 6 others representing CSBN, the satellite discoverers and the WG on extrasolar planets.
 
 

2. Satellite Nomenclature

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3. Mercury, Titan and Lunar Nomenclature

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 (from p. 116:)
 
  There has been strong support from NASA and other communities for naming seven craters on the Moon for the seven astronauts who perished during the tragic disaster of the Columbia Space Shuttle on 1 February 2003. There is a precedent to name craters in the vicinity of the crater Apollo on the far side on the Moon to honor deceased astronauts; however, according to the established rules of WGPSN, a person must have been dead for at least three years before his or her name can be assigned on a planetary body. An interesting alternative proposal for craters for the seven Columbia astronauts has been received but this has not yet been reviewed by the Lunar Task Group.
 
 

4. WGPSN Members (2003 - 2006)

CHAIRMAN: K. Aksnes (Norway)
MEMBERS: G.A. Burba (Russia), G. Consolmagno (Vatican), M.Ya. Marov (Russia),
B.C. Marsden (USA), T.C. Owen (USA), R. Schulz (Netherlands), V.V. Shevchenko
(Russia), B.A. Smith (USA), I. Williams (UK)
CONSULTANTS: J. Blue (USA), J. Blunck (Germany), L. Gaddis (USA), P. Masson
(France), M. Robinson (USA)

5. New Nomenclature

The following nomenclature (35 names for satellites of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus and 216 names on surface features on Eros, Europa, lo, Mars and Venus) has final approval by the XXVth IAU General Assembly:

... [much activity reported, but none related to the Moon]] ...

K. Aksnes
Chairperson of the Working Group