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Working Group on Meteor Shower Nomenclature


The commission has established a Working Group for Meteor Shower Nomenclature with the objective to formulate a descriptive list of established meteor showers that can receive official names during the next IAU General Assembly. This task aims to uniquely identify all existing meteor showers and establish unique names: as an example of the value of such a definitive calalogue would be to facilitate the establishment of associations between meteor showers and parent bodies among the many Near-Earth Objects that are being discovered.

Members of the Group:

Chair: Peter Jenniskens (USA): pjenniskens@mail.arc.nasa.gov

Vice-president: Tadeusz Jopek (Poland): jopek@amu.edu.pl

Vladimir Porubcan (Slovakia), astropor@savba.savba.sk, (IAU Meteor Orbit Data Center)

Jun-Ichi Watanabe (Japan): jun.watanabe@nao.ac.jp (IAU C22 president)

Juergen Rendtel (Germany): jrendtel@aip.de (IMO president)

Shinsuke Abe (Tawain): avell@astro.ncu.edu.tw

Jack Baggaley (New Zealand): jack.baggaley@canterbury.ac.nz

Peter Brown (Canada): pbrown@uwo.ca

Pavel Koten (Czech Republic): koten@asu.cas.cz

The Task Group on Meteor Shower Nomenclature was established at the IAU General Assembly in Prague on August 24, 2006. The current members were elected during the IAU General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, in August of 2009. Also, in Rio the Task Group has been transformed into the Working Group on Meteor Shower Nomenclature. The effective period of the Committee is three years, until the next General Assembly in 2012.


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 Interactive meteoroid database  List of all showers  List of established showers  Working list of showers  List of shower groups  Meteor Orbital Data
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Updated  AD 2010, April 22 by  T.J. Jopek