Scientists presented the first official map of Pluto

Now to focus on the distant cosmic object was at times easier.

Scientists presented the first official map of Pluto, in which appear the names of 14 of the objects on the surface of the planet. About it reports the Center for the advancement of science in space (CASIS).

“The names of the objects are reminiscent of the mythology of the underworld, the pioneer space missions, pioneers in the discovery of new horizons, scientists and engineers relevant to Pluto and the Kuiper belt”, – stated in the message of the International astronomical Union.

On Pluto there is the plain of the Satellite, the region tombo, crater Bernie, furrow Sleipnir and other names.

By the way, the idea of heroic assign names to objects Pluto came to the researchers in 2015 when the New Horizons probe has moved closer to the dwarf planet. In anticipation of the opening of the mountains, valleys, and other landforms researchers offered them different names.

The final options were selected together with the Internet users. In voting have taken part more than 500 thousand people.

According to NASA, the surface of Pluto was immortalized in the names of Venice Bernie, 11-year-old girl, who offered to call the open the planet in honor of the God of the afterlife realm, climbers Norgay of Tenzing and Edmund Hillary first conquered Everest, and the recently deceased astronomer James Elliot, the Roman poet Virgil and the medieval geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi. The name Bernie and Elliot was named the largest craters on the surface of Pluto, and the names of travelers, “inherit” pluchinsky mountains.

In addition to real people and spacecraft on Pluto “settled” and various gods and supernatural forces – Norse eight-legged horse Sleipnir, the steed of the God Odin, Adlivun, the deity of the underworld in the mythology of Eskimos and Djanggawul, a trio of boaters from tales of the Australian aborigines, carrying the dead to the afterlife. Their names, scientists have decided to name various depressions and networks of canyons on the surface of Pluto.

According to stern, this is only the first batch of names, and in the future, as scientists hope that the MAC approves and the other names chosen for the different parts of Pluto by network users and by astronomers.

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