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Author Schmadel, Lutz D.

Title Dictionary of minor planet names / Lutz D. Schmadel
Edition 5th rev. & enl. ed
Published Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 992 pages) : illustrations
Summary "Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Fifth Edition, is the official reference for the field of the IAU, which serves as the internationally recognised authority for assigning designations to celestial bodies and any surface features on them. The accelerating rate of the discovery of minor planets has not only made a new edition of this established compendium necessary but has also significantly altered its scope: this thoroughly revised edition concentrates on the approximately 10,000 minor planets that carry a name. It provides authoritative information about the basis for all names of minor planets. In addition to being of practical value for identification purposes, this collection provides a most interesting historical insight into the work of those astronomers who over two centuries vested their affinities in a rich and colorful variety of ingenious names, from heavenly goddesses to more prosaic constructions. The fifth edition serves as the primary reference, with plans for supplementary booklets with newly named bodies to be issued every three years."--Jacket
Notes "Prepared on behalf of commission 20 under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 931-932) and index
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Subject Asteroids.
Asteroids -- Dictionaries
Minor Planets
Asteroids.
Physique.
Asteroids
Genre/Form dictionaries.
Dictionaries
Dictionaries.
Dictionnaires.
Form Electronic book
Author International Astronomical Union.
ISBN 9783540299257
3540299254
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9783540002383