Check out whose name is right next to that of Ctulhu
A close-up slice of Plutonian landscape centered on Tombaugh Regio with informal names waiting for approval. Click for a large pdf file. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
1 posted on
08/03/2015 1:46:20 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
This image contains the initial, informal names being used by the New Horizons team for the features and regions on the surface of Pluto. The IAU will still need to give final approval. Click for a large pdf file. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute 2 posted on
08/03/2015 1:47:47 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
4 posted on
08/03/2015 2:03:19 PM PDT by
DFG
("Dumb, Dependent, and Democrat is no way to go through life" - Louie Gohmert (R-TX))
To: BenLurkin
Can you imagine, if Tenzing Norgay was still alive, what he would have thought of this?
6 posted on
08/03/2015 2:29:11 PM PDT by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: BenLurkin
Nobody's been to Charon before?
I'm sure that will be news to the people who live there.
8 posted on
08/03/2015 3:31:07 PM PDT by
Yashcheritsiy
(It's time to repeal and replace the GOP)
To: BenLurkin
9 posted on
08/03/2015 4:49:12 PM PDT by
Amagi
(Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
To: BenLurkin
I was thinking of the world where these two came from, but that was Cheron, not Charon, neither which are to be confused with 2060 Chiron, a minor planet orbiting just outside the orbit of Saturn.
Just wait until we start naming features on worlds in other Solar systems.
10 posted on
08/03/2015 5:05:00 PM PDT by
jmcenanly
("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
To: BenLurkin
I think that’s for Sir Edmund, the explorer Hillary was retroactively named for.
11 posted on
08/03/2015 6:36:51 PM PDT by
eclecticEel
("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
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