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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WORKING GROUP: PUBLIC NAMING OF PLANETS AND PLANETARY SATELLITES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 April 2016
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While one of the IAU's missions is to “serve as the internationally recognized authority for assigning designations to celestial bodies and surface features on them” (†), the participation of the public in the naming of celestial objects has been a little-known, but decade-long tradition of the IAU.
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- Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 11 , Issue T29A: Transactions IAU , August 2015 , pp. 539 - 548
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