Craters on Mars can be named for towns with 100,000 people or fewer. Everything on Venus is named for a woman. There are asteroids for every member of the Beatles -- but don't try to name one after your pet.
From left, Venus, the Moon and Jupiter are seen in the early morning sky near Salgotarjan, Hungary, on Jan. 31, 2019 By Sarah Kaplan Sarah Kaplan Reporter for Speaking of Science Email Bio Follow February 27 Aspiring lunar explorers, take heed — any newly discovered ridges on the Moon must be named for a geoscientist.
But, protocols for planetary nomenclature being what they are, Sheppard can only consider names that meet a few key criteria: Political fights and international disputes occasionally broke out over the names of new planets; Uranus was very nearly called “George’s star” after England’s King George III awarded an annual stipend and plush new digs in Windsor Castle to the planet’s discoverer, William Herschel. Improvements to telescopes that made it possible to identify the inhabitants of the asteroid belt resulted in scores of new rocky bodies being discovered every year.
When the first images are beamed back from a mission to a new celestial body, the spacecraft team behind the encounter typically proposes categories and themes for naming the landforms they observe, said Rita Schulz, the chairwoman of the WGPSN. Having themes “minimizes the chance that someone will want to give the same name to two different features on two different bodies because the themes will be different on each,” Williams said. “It also ties things together. If you know your mythology . . . you can immediately tell what body it’s on and what type [of feature] it is.”
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