Posted on 03/22/2015 8:06:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin
On July 14, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will fly past Pluto, offering the first close-up look at that small, distant world and its largest moon, Charon. These denizens of the outer solar system will be transformed from poorly seen hazy bodies to tangible worlds with distinct features.
Now, the public can help decide what labels will go on the images and maps coming from the flyby. The SETI Institute has announced the launch of its “Our Pluto” campaign, which is soliciting input on how to name features on the surfaces of Pluto and Charon.
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The science team will not have time to come up with names during the quick flyby, so they must assemble a library of names in advance. Consequently, they are inviting the public to visit the website http://ourpluto.seti.org where they can vote for the names they think should be used to identify the most prominent features on both Pluto and Charon. They can also suggest additional names. These must be associated with a set of broad themes related to mythology and the literature and history of exploration.
(Excerpt) Read more at astronomy.com ...
Don't you love the way the Men Seeking Men media reports such transactions as thought Dianne Feinstein does not benefit herself?
Bunch of rectums. Recti?
I’d name them after cities
asking the public the name Pluto is Goofy ....it’s very Mickey Mouse
Damn! You beat me!
Ears, nose, eyes, neck, body, legs, paws, collar.
He Pluto, don’t show us Uranus.
Whatever happened to the plan to name an asteroid after Trayvon Martin? Perhaps we could name some features of Pluto in Trayvon’s memory, if we are going to name things in outer space after famous ghetto types???
Ooh, my little pretty one, pretty one.
When you gonna give me some time, Charon-a?
Ooh you make my motor run, my motor run.
Gun it comin’ off the line Charon-a
Never gonna stop, give it up.
Such a dirty mind. Always get it up for the touch
of the younger kind. My my my i yi woo.
M M M My Charon-a...
Come a little closer huh, ah will ya huh.
Name the biggest hole on the bottom side of the planet “Obama”
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