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| | Astronomical naming conventions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The Martian nomenclature was clarified in 1958, when a committee of the IAU recommended for adoption the names of 128 albedo features (bright, dark, or colored) observed through ground-based telescopes (IAU, 1960). |
| | These names were based on a system of nomenclature developed in the late 19th century by the Italian astronomer Giovanni V. Schiaparelli (1879) and expanded in the early 20th century by Eugene M. Antoniadi (1929), a Greek-born astronomer working at Meudon, France. |
| | Thus, the famous Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was the ninth comet jointly discovered by Carolyn Shoemaker, Eugene Shoemaker and David Levy, but its official name is D/1993 F2 (it was discovered in 1993 and the prefix "D/" indicates it has "disappeared", since it was observed to crash into Jupiter. |
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