Astrogeology Research Program

Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Acknowledgments

The Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature wishes to express its appreciation for the efforts of the following people. The late Dr. Peter Millman, National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa, provided the original list of planetary names and carefully reviewed all planetary nomenclature material. Ewen Whitaker, now retired from the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, Arizona, corrected the lunar list. The late Dr. Harold Masursky agressively led and managed the planetary nomenclature process. Dr. Jean Duchesne-Guillermin, Liege, Belgium, performed authoritative and careful editing of the 1986 edition of the Gazetteer. We also thank Dr. Audouin Dollfus of the Observatoire de Paris, Dr. A. T. Basilevsky and Dr. G. Burba of the Vernadsky Institute, Moscow, and Mr. William Musielak of the University of Arizona, Tucson, for reviews of maps. Many USGS employees at the USGS Flagstaff Science Center are responsible for producing the Gazetteer. Mary Strobell and Joel Russell, both now retired, and Jennifer Blue coordinated all details of the naming process, from collecting names and submitting them to the appropriate IAU task groups and to the WGPSN, to applying names to features on maps. They were assisted at various stages by D. L. Applebee, Katherine Beer, Rebecca Birkholst, A. L. Dial, Jr., Elizabeth Dyer, Victoria Lobato, Connie Nordstrom, Jana Ruhlmann and Christine Vargas, who made corrections and additions; by Janet Barrett, Robert Gurule, C. E. Isbell, K. D. Knisely, and Bill Woodsmall, who wrote computer programs to sort and print the files; by R. D. Carroll and Ramon Sabala, who supplied cartographic expertise; by Dennis K. McMacken, Jacob Bailly, Jeff Anderson, Aaron Young, Way Christiansen, and Jac Shinaman who converted the documents to HTML format and wrote the search engine for the World Wide Web; by Tony Rosanova, Lynn Weller, and Tammy Becker who provided imagery; by Trent Hare who provided technical advice and innovative ideas; and by Deborah Lee Soltesz, Joseph Burke and Brian Peck who designed and implemented the current web site. Dr. Kenneth Tanaka, Dr. Robert Pappalardo, Dr. Jeffrey Kargel, and Dr. Paul Geissler provided geologic expertise to help define feature boundaries. Robert A. Garfinkle, FRAS provided valuable information to update the origin information for many lunar honorees.

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