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Posted by: Decepticon Mar 28 2006, 01:32 PM

Wow! Very nice!


http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=1843

Posted by: David Mar 28 2006, 01:41 PM

Wow, the biggest crater on Phoebe is called "Jason".

Some of those craters, like "Euphemus", look a lot like the ones on Hyperion. But most of them don't.

Posted by: angel1801 Mar 29 2006, 02:58 AM

All craters on Phoebe get their names from the "Argonauts" from "Jason And The Argonauts" story. The largest crater is given the most inportant Argonaut, and so on until the names of 24 craters have been filled with the most important 24 "Argonauts".

All names are at provisional status "Level 3".

Posted by: The Messenger Mar 29 2006, 04:01 AM

Did Volcanopele come up with the naming scheme for Phoebe?

Posted by: angel1801 Mar 29 2006, 05:52 AM

I heard that the naming convention honors the risk Cassini took to get to Saturn as "a voyage against the odds" just like the risks "Jason" took to deliver the "Golden Fleece" back to ancient Greece.

Posted by: volcanopele Mar 29 2006, 07:40 PM

No, I had nothing to do with it. If I had a choice frankly, I'd rather my name grace a mountain on Io than a crater on some backwater moon. Ionian mountains can be named after characters and places in Dante's Inferno. The very same Jason from the Argonauts story was in the eighth circle for seducing Hypsipyle, the daughter of the king of Lemnos. he also cheated on his wife Medea (the daughter of the king of Colchis), and married Creusa, the daughter of the king of Corinth. I think I get the picture of Jason's type

Interestingly enough, my last name would work for a lacus on Titan. Lacus on Titan (lakes if you will) are named after lakes on earth and there is a Perry Lake in northeast Kansas.