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Skip to content [#content] Menu and widgets About the Journal Aim & Scope Editorial Board Publication Ethics Archives For authors Feedback “Stars are Not for Sale” or the Legal Basis for Official Names of Natural and Anthropogenic Objects Article Open Access by Liliya Kazantseva 1 1 Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Kyiv, Ukraine) DOI: https://doi.org/10.29202/asl/2018/2/4 Received: August 30, 2018 / Accepted: September 26, 2018 / Published: November 10, 2018 View Full-Text Review Reports Cite This Paper Abstract The nomenclature of names of geographical and astronomical objects is clearly defined at the international and state level. The titles take into account the historical aspect that has been discovered from the research of literature and archival documents and norms of law. Only the relevant Commission of the International Astronomical Union is authorized to approve the names of heavenly bodies. Keywords: names of geographical objects, astronomical nomenclature References Yzbornyk Sviatoslava 1073 hoda (1983) Faksymylnoe yzdanye. Moskva: Prosveshchenye. Klymyshyn, I. A. (2006) Istoriia astronomii . Ivano-Frankivsk, Hostynets. Kodeks ustalenoi praktyky «Struktura ta zmist Derzhavnoho reiestru heohrafichnykh nazv» (2009) Visnyk heodezii ta kartohrafii . 4, 3-9. Konstytutsiia Ukrainy (1996) Vidomosti Verkhovnoi Rady Ukrainy (VVR), 30, st. 141 Naienko, H. (2016) Astronomichna terminolohiia u staroukrainskykh pamiatkakh pershoi polovyny XVII stolittia . Lviv: Instytut prykladnykh problem mekhaniky i matematyky im. Ya. S.Pidstryhacha NAN Ukrainy. Pro heohrafichni nazvy (2005) Zakon Ukrainy. Vidomosti Verkhovnoi Rady (VVR) , 27, st.360 Andersen, Johannes, David M. Baneke, and Claus Madsen (2019) The International Astronomical Union. Uniting the Community for 100 Years . Springer. Arthur, D. W. G., Agnieray, A P., Horvath, R. A., Wood, C. A., and Chapman, C. R. (1963) The system of lunar craters, quadrant I. Communications of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory , Vol. 2, no. 30, 71-78. Arthur, D.W.G., Pellicori, R.H., and Wood, C.A. (1966) The system of lunar craters, quadrant IV. Communications of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory . Vol. 5, no. 70, 1-208. Bayer, Johann (1603) Uranometria omnium asterismorum continens schemata, nova methodo delineata aereis laminis expressa . Augsburg: excudit Christophorus Mangus. Blagg, Mary, and Karl Müller (1935) Named lunar formations. London, Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd.. De le stelle fisse di Alessandro Piccolomini viene stampato per la prima volta a Venezia nel (1540) De Vaucouleurs G., J. Blunck, M. Davies, A. Dollfus, I. K. Koval, H. Masursky, S. Miyamoto, V. I. Moroz, C. Sagan, and B. Smith (1975) The new Martian nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union. Icarus, Vol. 26, 85-98. Flamsteed, John (1712) Historia coelestis libri duo, quorum prior exhibet Catalogum Stellarum Fixarum Britannicum et Planetarum omnium Observationibus ; posterior Transitus Syderum. London: J. Matthews; VI. Masursky, Harold, Kaare Aksnes, G.E. Hunt, M.Y. Marov, P.M. Millman, David Morrison, T.C. Owen, V.V. Shevchenko, B.A. Smith, and V.G. Tejfel (1986) Annual gazetteer of planetary nomenclature, Intenationl astronomical union, working group for planetary system nomenclature. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report , 84-692. Observer’s Handbook 2019: USA Edition (2018) By Editor James S. Edgar. Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, RASC. Tarter, Jill C. (2005) Nomenclature Scheme in use by the WGESP and a Current List of Extrasolar Planets. Highlights of Astronomy, Vol. 13, 1008. Share and Cite Kazantseva, Liliya (2018) “Stars are Not for Sale” or the Legal Basis for Official Names of Natural and Anthropogenic Objects. Advanced Space Law , Volume 2, 31-38. https://doi.org/10.29202/asl/2018/2/4 Back to the list of Articles