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Pluto’s Largest Moon, Charon, Gets Its First Official Feature Names
Legendary explorers and visionaries, real and fictitious, are among those immortalized by the IAU in the first set of official surface-feature names for Pluto’s largest moon, Charon. The names were proposed by the New Horizons team and approved by IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature.
IAU Set to Celebrate 100 Years of “Uniting the World to Explore the Universe”
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 2019, the IAU will organise a year-long worldwide public engagement celebration under the theme “Uniting our World to Explore the Universe”. The first plans for the celebration were announced at the opening session of the Communicating Astronomy with the Public 2018 Conference in Fukuoka, Japan, the world’s largest gathering of astronomy communicators.
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