Artist’s impression of Pluto and Charon. Image credit: IAU/L. Calçada
The dwarf planet Pluto is undoubtedly one of the favourites in our solar system and much talked about celestial object over the recent years. 14 July 2015 will go on our history books with NASA’s New Horizon probe giving us the first close-up look at this tiny, distance neighbour and its largest satellite, Charon.
To celebrate this occasion, good folks at NASA’s New Horizons mission, SETI Institute, and IAU inviting public to participate in naming newly discovered features on Pluto and its satellites. GTTP invites teachers and students around the world to visit the website http://ourpluto.seti.org, 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.
Deadline 24 April 2015 More information: http://www.iau.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iau1502/