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archiveofadeadclown: ultrafacts: Source [x] Follow @ultrafacts for more facts! that’s… not how it works? i hate to say so but… that’s literally not how it works???? The IAU is legit; it’s the scientific group — an association of working astronomers — that names astronomical bodies (stars, planets, moons, et c.) and features on those bodies. According to this page with more details, this comes out of a working group to study the astronomical terms available in various sign languages internationally, propose terms that they think should have signs, and develop those signs. Their first international comparative list was published in 2017, after interest was spurred after the 2009 publication of Hands in the Stars, an encyclopedic dictionary of astronomy for French Sign Language. You can argue that signs, or words in spoken languages, should always arise bottom-up from usage in the community, but international scientific standards bodies often invent terminology in this way; I’d argue it’s analogous to the naming of elements by the IAPUC.(The effort, by the IAU Executive Committee Working Group on Astronomy for Equity and Inclusion, is dedicated to eminent deaf astronomers Annie Jump Cannon (1863–1941) and Henrietta Leavitt (1868–1921), who made amazing discoveries in the early 20th century despite the fact that, as women, they were not allowed to operate telescopes at the time.) -- source link
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