{"id":10218,"date":"2015-03-24T16:13:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T20:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10218"},"modified":"2015-03-24T20:33:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T00:33:25","slug":"public-invited-to-suggest-names-for-features-on-pluto-and-charon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10218","title":{"rendered":"Public invited to suggest names for features on Pluto and Charon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/\" target=\"_d\">NASA&#8217;s\u00a0New Horizons<\/a>\u00a0spacecraft gets closer each day to Pluto and the\u00a0fly-by on July 14th. The New Horizons mission, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\" target=\"_blank\">SETI Institute<\/a> and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iau.org\/\" target=\"_d\">International Astronomical Union<\/a>\u00a0(IAU) have opened a public participation program in which you offer an addition to\u00a0a list of\u00a0names that will be used for features on Pluto and its moon Charon.<\/p>\n<p>The SETI Institute has opened the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourpluto.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Our Pluto<\/a>\u00a0website where you can submit your suggested names :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\/seti-institute\/press-release\/public-asked-help-name-features-pluto\" target=\"_d\">Public Asked to Help Name Features on Pluto &#8211;\u00a0SETI Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[ <strong>Update<\/strong>: Here&#8217;s a\u00a0Google Hangout discussion with SETI Institute scientist Mark Showalter and New Horizons mission member\u00a0Cathy Olkin about\u00a0the Our Pluto program:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2vAXD_De6Kc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>]<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for the name submissions is April 7, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a statement today from the IAU that lays out the boundaries for what names will be accepted.:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iau.org\/news\/pressreleases\/detail\/iau1502\/\" target=\"_d\">Campaign for Public Participation in Naming Features on Pluto<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_intro pr_first\">In partnership with NASA\u2019s New Horizons mission and the SETI Institute, the IAU is endorsing a campaign that will allow the public to participate in naming newly discovered features on Pluto and its satellites. It is expected that many new features will be discovered in the upcoming flyby of Pluto and will be available for naming. The public is invited to suggest names within the designated IAU themes for these celestial bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Pluto retains a unique position in the hearts and minds of many. Pluto is a remote and enigmatic world that resides at the edge of the Solar System, in a region known as the Kuiper Belt, where it is one among many similar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iau.org\/public\/themes\/pluto\/\">dwarf planets<\/a>, although Pluto remains the largest discovered to date.<\/p>\n<p>On 14 July 2015, NASA\u2019s New Horizons probe will fly past Pluto, offering the first close-up look at this small, distant world and its largest satellite, Charon. These denizens of the outer Solar System will, at long last, be transformed from mysterious, hazy bodies into worlds with distinct features.<\/p>\n<p>In celebration of this historic occasion, the IAU is proud to endorse a campaign that will allow members of the public to participate in naming newly imaged and identified features on the surfaces of Pluto and its natural satellites.<\/p>\n<p>This naming campaign is a partnership between the NASA\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/newhorizons\">New Horizons<\/a> project, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\/\">SETI Institute<\/a> and the IAU.<\/p>\n<p>You are invited to visit the website <a href=\"http:\/\/ourpluto.seti.org\/\">ourpluto.seti.org<\/a>, where you can vote for the names that you think should be used to identify the most prominent features on both Pluto and Charon. You can also suggest additional names. These must be associated with a set of accepted themes set out by the IAU\u2019s Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iau.org\/science\/scientific_bodies\/working_groups\/98\/\">WGPSN<\/a>) related to mythology and the literature and history of exploration:<\/p>\n<p>Pluto:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Names for the Underworld from the world&#8217;s mythologies.<\/li>\n<li>Gods, goddesses, and dwarfs associated with the Underworld.<\/li>\n<li>Heroes and other explorers of the Underworld.<\/li>\n<li>Writers associated with Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.<\/li>\n<li>Scientists and engineers associated with Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Charon:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Destinations and milestones of fictional space and other exploration.<\/li>\n<li>Fictional and mythological vessels of space and other exploration.<\/li>\n<li>Fictional and mythological voyagers, travellers and explorers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Styx:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>River gods.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nix:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deities of the night.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kerberos:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dogs from literature, mythology and history.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hydra:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Legendary serpents and dragons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please note, however, that votes for other themes will not be taken into account, incl. the following, since these themes have already been used on Mercury, Venus and Mars:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Space missions and spacecraft names.<\/li>\n<li>Authors, artists, directors and producers of the fiction of exploration.<\/li>\n<li>Explorers of the Earth, air and seas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The campaign ends on 7 April 2015, after which the New Horizons team will sort through the names and submit their recommendations to the IAU. The IAU will have the final decision on how the names are used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s\u00a0New Horizons\u00a0spacecraft gets closer each day to Pluto and the\u00a0fly-by on July 14th. The New Horizons mission, the SETI Institute and the\u00a0International Astronomical Union\u00a0(IAU) have opened a public participation program in which you offer an addition to\u00a0a list of\u00a0names that will be used for features on Pluto and its moon Charon. The SETI Institute has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10218\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Public invited to suggest names for features on Pluto and Charon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,97,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests-and-games","category-pluto","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2EO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":757,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=757","url_meta":{"origin":10218,"position":0},"title":"Video: Discovering the new moons of Pluto","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 20, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The SETI Institute has just posted this video in their lecture series:\u00a0 Discovery of the New Moons of Pluto - Mark Showalter (SETI Talks) - YouTube Dr. Showalter recently discovered the fourth and fifth moons of Pluto. 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