Pluto System Cartography, places and names Options

[Habukaz]

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

[Marcin600]

I don't know if I'm posting this in the right topic...

Reading Alan Stern's December 17, 2021 post "The PI's Perspective: Looking Back, Looking Forward" on the New Horizons website - http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/PI-Per...tive_12_17_2021 - I noticed this excerpt:

„For this update, I also want to mention to you that a number of Pluto system and Arrokoth surfaces features have received official names that our project team proposed (...) They also include the first surface feature named on Pluto’s moon Nix, and an official name, “Sky,” for Arrokoth’s largest crater.”

However, I can not find maps, pictures or even some sketches with these new names on Arrokoth and Nix, or any further information on this matter anywhere.
Can anyone help me please?

[mcaplinger]

However, I can not find maps, pictures or even some sketches with these new names on Arrokoth and Nix, or any further information on this matter anywhere.
Can anyone help me please?

Presumably they just haven't updated https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/ yet -- the last update was in early December 2021.

[Marcin600]

Presumably they just haven't updated https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/ yet -- the last update was in early December 2021.

Thank you.
In fact, there is probably some delay (e.g. there are also no maps/pictures with names on the surfaces of Bennu and Ryugu on the IAU website).