The commission has established a Working Group on Meteor Shower Nomenclature with the objective of formulating a descriptive list of established meteor showers that can receive official names during the next IAU General Assembly. This task aims to uniquely identify all existing meteor showers and establish unique names. An example of the value of such a definitive catalogue would be the establishment of associations between meteor showers and parent bodies among the many Near-Earth Objects that are discovered.
Members of the group:
The Task Group on Meteor Shower Nomenclature was established at the IAU General Assembly in Prague on August 24, 2006. During the IAU General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, in August 2009, the Task Group has been transformed into the Working Group on Meteor Shower Nomenclature.