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The International Astronomical Union at its 2006 General Assembly in Prague has adopted a set of rules for meteor shower nomenclature, a working list with designated names (with IAU numbers and three-letter codes), and established a Task Group for Meteor Shower Nomenclature in Commission 22 (Meteors and Interplanetary Dust) to help define which meteor showers exist from well defined groups of meteoroids from a single parent body.
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P. Jenniskens, Meteor Showers and their Parent Comets, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2006), 790 pp
P. Jenniskens, Div. III/Comm. 22/WG Task Group for Meteor Shower Nomenclature. IAU Information Bulletin 99, January 2007, 60–62
P. Spurny, J. Borovicka, Minutes of the Commission 22 Business Meeting. (IAU General Assembly, Prague, 2006), August 24, 2006
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Jenniskens, P. (2007). The IAU Meteor Shower Nomenclature Rules. In: Trigo-RodrÃguez, J.M., Rietmeijer, F.J.M., Llorca, J., Janches, D. (eds) Advances in Meteoroid and Meteor Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78419-9_2
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