Help name features on Pluto and Charon

Help name features on Pluto and Charon
by Eleanor Imster in » Science Wire, Space
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New Horizons spacecraft will sweep past Pluto and its moons on July 15, revealing their surface features for the first time! You’re invited to help choose names.

On July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will fly past Pluto, snapping the first-ever high resolution pictures of that small, distant world and its largest moon, Charon. As the surface features of these two worlds are revealed – craters, rifts, valleys – they’ll need names.

You can help decide what labels will go on the images and maps coming from the flyby. In cooperation with the International Astronomical Union, the SETI Institute has launched its “Our Pluto” campaign, which is soliciting input from the public on how to name features on the surfaces of Pluto and Charon. Vote/suggest names here: http://www.ourpluto.org/

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You can vote for your favorites from a list of names, or suggest names not on the list. The names must be associated with a set of broad themes related to mythology and the literature and history of exploration. The website also includes a simple ballot to allow young children to participate. http://earthsky.org/space/www.ourpluto.org

The campaign runs until April 7, after which date the New Horizons team will sort through the names and submit their recommendations to the International Astronomical Union (IAU). The IAU will decide how the names are used.

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