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Re: (meteorobs) Re: Non-IMO Showers
I agree with Jim, we need to agree upon the names of showers and their
abbreviations. IAU Commission 22 is the obvious vehicle, perhaps
it's pro-am committee. Have the AMOR radar guys in Christchurch
cataslogued their orbits into showers? The next IAU is this summer
(if such a thing exists in Manchester). So couldn't we compile a list
of multi-named showers we know about, and ask for a resolution.
Of course, having an IAU standard doesn't prevent people from using the
old names, just like the cgs units, B1950 co-ordinates, jumbled dates
(cf. WGN) etc.
Jim Bedient wrote:
> shower names and acronyms. The variable star community works from a
> standard set of constellation abbreviations, and a standardized system for
The constellation abbreviations are IAU standards irrespective of
variable stars, or do the VS community have other abbreviations?
> naming new variables, making it fairly easy to discuss individual stars and
> search the literature for info on a given star, etc. Perhaps we should
> join them in a similar system for naming meteor showers.
S23 Tau doesn't have that ring of say zeta-Taurids. The Greek letters
are more memorable than the numbers. Shame that the second letter has
to be further down the alphabet than the first.
Malcolm
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