Commission 22 of the International Astronomical Union |
Task Group on Meteor Shower Nomenclature |
Meteor shower nomenclature rules Working list of meteor showers IAU Meteor Data Center |
The
commission has established a Task 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.
Chair: Peter Jenniskens (USA), e-mail: Members of the Group: Vladimir Porubcan (Slovakia), email: (IAU Meteor Orbit Data Center) Pavel Spurny (Czech Republic), e-mail: (IAU C22 president) William J. Baggaley (New Zealand), email: Juergen Rendtel (Germany), email: Shinsuke Abe (Japan), email: Robert Hawkes (Canada), email: Tadeusz J. Jopek (Poland), email: The Task Group on Meteor Shower Nomenclature was established, and members were elected, at the IAU General Assembly in Prague on August 24, 2006. The effective period of the Committee is three years, until the next General Assembly in 2009. |