{"id":89361,"date":"2019-01-08T16:51:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T02:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=89361"},"modified":"2019-01-08T16:53:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T02:53:10","slug":"hawaiian-naming-program-astronomers-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/01\/08\/hawaiian-naming-program-astronomers-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaiian naming program of celestial bodies well received at astronomy conference"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Kaʻiu<\/span> Kimura<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The program out of ʻImiloa Astronomy Center of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a> at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo that provides Hawaiian names to astronomical discoveries was the focus of the opening session of the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society<\/a> (AAS<\/abbr>) in Seattle, Washington, on January 7, 2019.<\/p>\n

ʻImiloa Executive Director Kaʻiu<\/span> Kimura<\/strong> gave the keynote address at the opening event to an audience of more than 2,000 attendees on ʻImiloa and it\u2019s mission, ʻImiloa\u2019s A Hua He Inoa program where Hawaiian speaking students work with Hawaiian educators and Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>-based astronomers on naming astronomical discoveries and story behind the naming of ʻOumuamua, the first interstellar object to be tracked through our solar system<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I think I got the audience thinking differently about culture and science partnerships,” said Kimura. “It was such an honor to share the new initiatives forming back in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> that have had\u2014and have yet to have\u2014tremendous impact for our communities.”<\/p>\n

ʻOumuamua gained massive media attention and propelled the use of ʻolelo Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> as part of the coverage. Larry Kimura<\/strong> of the UH<\/abbr> Hilo Ka Haka ʻUla o Keʻelikolani<\/span> College of Hawaiian Language<\/a> named the interstellar object. The A Hua He Inoa program is the first of its kind in the world that weaves traditional indigenous practices into the process of officially naming astronomical discoveries. The Hawaiian speaking students in the program have named two asteroids in the solar system, Kamoʻoalewa<\/span> and Kaʻepaokaʻawela<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

AAS<\/abbr> is the major organization of professional astronomers in North America with a stated mission to enhance and share humanity\u2019s scientific understanding of the universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ʻImiloa Astronomy Center of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>‘s A Hua He Inoa program brings together Hawaiian speaking students, Hawaiian educators and Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>-based astronomers on naming astronomical discoveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1057,292,316,14],"class_list":["post-89361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-hawaiian-language","tag-imiloa-astronomy-center","tag-ka-haka-ula-o-keelikolani","tag-uh-hilo","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89373,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89361\/revisions\/89373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}