The Cartographic Lunar Reference Frame
Brent Archinal  1, @  , Al Conrad  2  , Tom Duxbury  3  , Daniel Hestroffer  4  , Laurent Jorda  5  , Randy Kirk  6  , Sergei Klioner  7  , Jean-Luc Margot  8  , Jürgen Oberst  9  , Flora Paganelli  10  , Ken Seidelmann  11  , David Tholen  12  , Iwan Williams  13  
1 : U. S. Geological Survey, Astrogeology Science Center, 2255 N. Gemini Drive, Flagstaff, AZ 86004; barchinal@usgs.gov
2 : Large Binocular Telescope Observatory, Tucson, AZ
3 : George Mason University
Fairfax, VA -  United States
4 : IMCCE
IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, Paris
5 : LAM
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, Marseille
6 : U.S. Geological Survey (emeritus), Flagstaff, AZ
7 : Technische Universität Dresden, Lohrmann Observatory, Dresden
8 : University of California Los Angeles
CA -  United States
9 : DLR Berlin Adlershof, Berlin
10 : National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA
11 : University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA -  United States
12 : University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI -  United States
13 : Queen Mary University of London
London -  United Kingdom

In this abstract we describe, and give our rationale for questioning, recent discussions to make a fundamental change to how coordinates are defined on the Moon that would alter feature coordinates at roughly the kilometer level.

Subject : : oral
Topics : Reference System
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