Your Chance to Name a Moon!
March 28, 2009 by David Dickinson
Filed under Astro News & Commentary, Off Topic
Can you see Orcus? (Credit: Mike Brown/APOD/Samuel Oschin Telescope).
This is a quick call to arms: astronomer Mike Brown is asking for your help in naming s/1 90482 (2005), a moon of the Kuiper Belt Object Orcus, infamously touted as “the anti-Pluto…” Mike will be entertaining entries until Sunday, April 5th, 2009…there is already quite [...]






