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...Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT), a division of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) based in Paris, France and operated through the SAO, officially authorizes and names all new comets...
...about the size of the comet that killed off the dinosaurs. He points out that his asteroid is so far considered benign, meaning it does not threaten to intercept the earth's orbit anytime soon. Needless to say, Jaroff is quite pleased to be acknowledged by the IAU and to gain this bit of immortality: "I've never had anything named after me before, not even my children...
...International Astronomical Union (IAU) may name a crater in the moon's Sea of Tranquility after a deceased Harvard professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, a spokesman for the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said this week...
...task force will propose the name of Donald Menzel, the former director of the Harvard College Observatory who died last year, at a full meeting of the IAU this spring, James Cornell, a spokesman for the astrophysics center, said...
Whipple is chairman of the shooting star committee of the International Astronomical Union, and a member of the IAU's committees on spectrophotometry and on the positions and motions of asteroids...