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Pluto System Cartography, places and names

Habukaz View Member Profile	Jul 28 2015, 08:17 PM Post #1
Member Group: Members Posts: 423 Joined: 13-November 14 From: Norway Member No.: 7310	BuzzFeed have gotten their hands on how the NH team plans to name features on both Pluto and Charon: http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkasprak/the-vader-crater The names give some clues for how the science team is interpreting things: you find things named fossa, vallis, cavus, rupes, dorsa and linea - all on Pluto. EDIT: The maps on the mission website: Pluto Sputnik plain and surroundings Charon This post has been edited by Habukaz: Dec 20 2015, 09:11 PM -------------------- My Twitter feed

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Bill Harris View Member Profile	Mar 19 2016, 02:40 PM Post #2
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3009 Joined: 30-October 04 Member No.: 105	Have we ever gotten official Pluto-system names or are we still moseying along with informal names? --Bill -------------------- Dawn-- Ceres Pluto Encounter Rosetta Mission

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Habukaz Pluto System Cartography Jul 28 2015, 08:17 PM

stevesliva Cousteau Rupes! It's an escarpment! ... Jul 28 2015, 08:43 PM

Gladstoner QUOTE (Habukaz @ Jul 28 2015, 03:17 PM) B... Jul 29 2015, 12:18 AM

Exploitcorporations I've uploaded a version of the Johns Hopkins/S... Jul 29 2015, 03:10 AM

scalbers QUOTE (Exploitcorporations @ Jul 29 2015, 03... Jul 29 2015, 05:23 PM

Bill Harris They have developed a unique naming strategy. At... Jul 29 2015, 11:42 AM

scalbers Just a little cleanup for my Pluto map: Full re... Jul 30 2015, 08:59 PM

4throck QUOTE (scalbers @ Jul 30 2015, 09:59 PM) ... Jul 31 2015, 02:06 PM

scalbers QUOTE (4throck @ Jul 31 2015, 02:06 PM) A... Aug 4 2015, 06:45 PM

nprev MOD NOTE: One post (& two responses to same) h... Jul 31 2015, 05:09 PM

Exploitcorporations An exhaustive treatment of the proposed names from... Aug 2 2015, 02:39 AM

Rob Pinnegar Nice to see that they have named large features af... Aug 6 2015, 06:01 PM

Antdoghalo That's awesome, no more of that blank space... Aug 6 2015, 08:32 PM

Gennady Ionov With the use of metadata of LORRI frames I clarify... Aug 10 2015, 07:35 PM

Gennady Ionov Rebuilt pictures with the map http://pluto.jhuapl.... Aug 10 2015, 08:46 PM

scalbers Interesting in that I had also noticed a North-Sou... Aug 10 2015, 09:16 PM

Gennady Ionov QUOTE (Bjorn Jonsson @ Aug 11 2015, 12:25... Aug 11 2015, 07:58 AM

Habukaz Bah, apparently there will be disagreement over th... Aug 26 2015, 10:02 AM

Bill Harris IAU should have had at least a provisional, if not... Aug 26 2015, 01:25 PM

JRehling Names are always a sign of the times, and Pluto... Aug 26 2015, 02:57 PM

FOV It is Sputnik Planum AFAIC. The IAU can't chan... Aug 26 2015, 09:35 PM

Phil Stooke Don't worry too much about names. Anyone can ... Aug 26 2015, 11:50 PM

Herobrine I don't agree that names have the capacity to ... Aug 27 2015, 12:43 AM

mcaplinger The topic of naming might be considered as an addi... Aug 27 2015, 03:55 AM

nprev MOD NOTE: Recall that Aeolis Mons--as it is offici... Aug 27 2015, 04:23 AM

Explorer1 Nothing wrong with multiple names as long as we st... Aug 27 2015, 06:21 AM

Bill Harris "Ultreya" was hardly widespread and was... Aug 27 2015, 09:02 AM

Habukaz The problem with more than one set of names is tha... Aug 27 2015, 10:09 AM

JRehling A point of comparison: The various Mars rovers ha... Aug 27 2015, 11:01 AM

stevesliva QUOTE (JRehling @ Aug 27 2015, 07:01 AM) ... Aug 27 2015, 06:37 PM

centsworth_II Mod is great! Aug 27 2015, 06:41 PM

Nafnlaus Kneel Before Mod! hehe... but anyway, given t... Sep 5 2015, 10:08 PM

Gennady Ionov Icosahedral projection of Pluto map translated fro... Sep 6 2015, 08:03 AM

Gennady Ionov Color icosahedral projection of Pluto map from sca... Sep 6 2015, 08:51 AM

Bill Harris What an interesting projections. Could it be prin... Sep 6 2015, 11:35 AM

Gennady Ionov QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Sep 6 2015, 04:35 PM... Sep 6 2015, 11:40 AM

Gennady Ionov Printed and glued icosahedron It does not look a... Sep 6 2015, 12:47 PM

ZLD HAHA! Great seeing someone try it out Genn... Sep 6 2015, 01:40 PM

Bill Harris QUOTE Yes, it is possible to glue the icosahedron.... Sep 6 2015, 04:04 PM

chuckclark Might be me. I made those foldable maps of sever... Sep 6 2015, 08:04 PM

ngunn Also JRehling did one for Titan - see here: https:... Sep 6 2015, 08:24 PM

ZLD My knowledge of cartography is pretty limited so a... Sep 6 2015, 09:39 PM

Req QUOTE (ZLD @ Sep 6 2015, 02:39 PM) My kno... Sep 6 2015, 11:29 PM

hendric QUOTE (Req @ Sep 6 2015, 05:29 PM) Or the... Sep 9 2015, 03:43 PM

ZLD If it were that simple, I can promise that I would... Sep 7 2015, 02:35 AM

MarsInMyLifetime Yesterday Greg Smyer-Rumsby of Astronomy Now tweet... Sep 7 2015, 03:03 AM

Vaebn Hello folks. I've been a lurker for some time ... Sep 13 2015, 06:51 AM

Gennady Ionov It's great! I also thought about how to pr... Sep 13 2015, 08:42 AM

Bill Harris How neat-- I like your work. I've been inter... Sep 13 2015, 08:37 AM

Bill Harris QUOTE (hendric)I couldn't determine if they sh... Sep 13 2015, 01:31 PM

hendric Vaebn, Great work! Bookmarked for future pr... Sep 14 2015, 01:54 PM

Vaebn Bill (also see PM) / Gennady / Hendric. Thanks... Sep 15 2015, 01:37 AM

scalbers I just put together a map version including some o... Sep 15 2015, 10:08 PM

Habukaz QUOTE (scalbers @ Sep 16 2015, 12:08 AM) ... Sep 19 2015, 04:21 PM

Gennady Ionov The first test of automatic map generation: Pluto ... Sep 19 2015, 02:33 PM

scalbers This question (referring to Yutu Linea) has a good... Sep 19 2015, 06:48 PM

Gennady Ionov The next approximation: Pluto and Charon: longit... Sep 20 2015, 05:44 AM

Gennady Ionov I take a picture area of the sky, where was Pluto ... Sep 20 2015, 05:07 PM

chuckclark A daisy petal foldable globe of Pluto is over here... Dec 20 2015, 08:12 PM

Bill Harris Thanks, Chuck. Is a Charon foldable globe in th... Dec 21 2015, 10:02 PM

chuckclark a Charon foldable globe? Yes, Charon is on my rad... Dec 22 2015, 03:34 PM

scalbers Would someone be able to remind me where the best ... Mar 18 2016, 05:25 PM

ZLD As far as I know, this is the current best map ava... Mar 18 2016, 07:56 PM

Bill Harris Have we ever gotten official Pluto-system names or... Mar 19 2016, 02:40 PM

mcaplinger Other than the general categories, I don't see... Mar 19 2016, 03:56 PM

alan I wonder if they have submitted the names, or if t... Mar 19 2016, 06:07 PM

mcaplinger QUOTE (alan @ Mar 19 2016, 10:07 AM) I wo... Mar 19 2016, 07:03 PM

alan QUOTE What does "too late" mean? Just th... Mar 21 2016, 06:41 PM

Bill Harris The IAU may been useful in the days when you docum... Mar 21 2016, 07:12 PM

JRehling A tale I've mentioned before: The USGS map an... Mar 21 2016, 10:14 PM

Herobrine At home, I have a browser plug-in configured to re... Mar 22 2016, 01:53 PM

mcaplinger QUOTE (Herobrine @ Mar 22 2016, 05:53 AM)... Mar 22 2016, 03:07 PM

nprev MOD NOTE: Aaaaand that's the end of the IAU ta... Mar 22 2016, 11:49 PM

JohnVV repost from a different forum --- this is a VERY... Apr 26 2016, 10:29 PM

alan NASA’s New Horizons, IAU Set Pluto Naming Themes Feb 23 2017, 07:14 PM

MarcF Finally, Pluto features got their first official n... Sep 7 2017, 04:12 PM

Habukaz Pluto in Google Maps is quite nice: http://google.... Jan 3 2018, 08:01 PM

stevesliva Charon IAU Nomenclature http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Ne... Apr 11 2018, 06:00 PM

Antdoghalo I made this map of Charon by combining the 12K USG... Jun 20 2020, 12:56 AM

Antdoghalo 16K Map of Pluto made by combining USGS map with a... Jul 5 2020, 01:03 PM

Antdoghalo I recently got a new computer. With it, I have con... Nov 23 2020, 11:39 PM

machi QUOTE (Antdoghalo @ Nov 24 2020, 12:39 AM... Dec 3 2020, 12:50 AM

nprev Spectacular. Great work! Nov 24 2020, 01:01 AM

Marcin600 I don't know if I'm posting this in the ri... Feb 4 2022, 07:40 PM

mcaplinger QUOTE (Marcin600 @ Feb 4 2022, 11:40 AM) ... Feb 4 2022, 08:45 PM

Marcin600 QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Feb 4 2022, 09:45 PM)... Feb 8 2022, 06:23 PM

Marcin600 And here it is!!! Thank you! http... Feb 15 2022, 12:53 AM

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