Tuesday 21 September, 17h00-18h30
A Division 1 Working Group on “"Nomenclature for Fundamental astronomy"”
(NFA) was formed
at the 25th IAU GA in 2003 in order to provide proposals for new nomenclature associated
with the implementation of the
IAU 2000 Resolutions. This WG is also intended to make related educational efforts
for addressing the issue to the large community of scientists.
Five NFA Newsletters were issued from October 2003 to July 2004 to discuss the proposed
terminology. All the material has been posted on the NFA webpage.
One important step has been the preparation of a NFA questionnaire including
two parts: Questionnaire NFA/A on ‘terminology choices’ which was at first intended
for the astronomical community, and Questionnaire NFA/B, for the Almanac Offices
and related organizations. All the WG members and a few astronomers responded
to QA and the main Almanac offices responded to QA and QB. The summary of
the documents collecting the responses and comments to both Questionnaires and the
responses to the questions of Newsletter 4 have led to draft Working Group recommendations
and guidelines on terminology which are supported by explanatory documents.
The points to be discussed will be:
- the preliminary NFA WG recommendations which are still under discussion by the WG,
- the explanatory documents that the WG is preparing,
- the draft Resolution proposal to the IAU 2006 GA,
- the future actions of the NFA