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 Nov 15 2006, 02:50 AM
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I was just looking at the planetary names website and they now have new fully approved names for the Cassini discovered features on this moon so far (ie to about March 2006).
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Nov 15 2006, 04:39 AM
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So, it looks like the Tiger Stripes are now to be called Alexandria, Baghdad, Cairo, and Damascus Sulcus, with Baghdad Sulcus passing over the South Pole. ABCD? It's tough to match them up and figure out which one is which on Steve's South Polar map.
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Nov 15 2006, 06:12 AM
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Could someone please post the link to this site?
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Nov 15 2006, 06:14 AM
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QUOTE (Michael Capobianco @ Nov 14 2006, 09:39 PM)  So, it looks like the Tiger Stripes are now to be called Alexandria, Baghdad, Cairo, and Damascus Sulcus, with Baghdad Sulcus passing over the South Pole. ABCD? It's tough to match them up and figure out which pone is which on Steve's South Polar map. Michael http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~perry/Ence...celadus_map.jpg Enjoy! (map from Steve Albers) -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Nov 15 2006, 06:23 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8791 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Thanks very much, VP...quite illuminating!
 In fact, I was struck by the fact that so much of the southern hemisphere's terrain looks "Europan". Can we draw some inferences here....  ?
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Nov 15 2006, 10:39 AM
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USGS's Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature contains every official surface feature name in the Solar System beyond the Earth.
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Nov 15 2006, 11:36 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 51 Joined: 12-March 06 From: Zurich, Switzerland Member No.: 703 |
Awesome, VP! Your updated map would probably have pleased even caliph Harun Al-Rashid, Prince of True Believers!
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Nov 15 2006, 02:54 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 114 Joined: 6-November 05 From: So. Maryland, USA Member No.: 544 |
QUOTE (volcanopele @ Nov 15 2006, 01:14 AM) Enjoy! (map from Steve Albers) Thanks, Jason. ACBD.  Michael |
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Nov 15 2006, 03:54 PM
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QUOTE (Thorsten @ Nov 15 2006, 05:36 AM) Awesome, VP! Your updated map would probably have pleased even caliph Harun Al-Rashid, Prince of True Believers! Are the Arabic names intended to evoke feelings that the Sulcus is an oasis? Or a tribute to the arabic astromers of yore? Or just a, "and now for something completely different!" moment? |
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Nov 15 2006, 05:15 PM
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Enceladus has a naming convention that all names on the moon come from the Richard Burton version of the Arabian Nights. The other moons of Saturn have: Mimas: People and places from "Le Morte D'Arthur" by Thomas Malory Dione: Peopla ena places from "Aeneid" by Virgil Tethys: People and places from "Odyssey" by Homer Rhea: People and places on Creation Myths Iapetus: People and places from "The Song Of Roland" Phoebe: People and places from "Jason And The Argonauts" It is wierd that the south pole "Suici" just happens to be called "Baghdad"! Sometimes art and life does sometime mix! -------------------- I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed.
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Nov 15 2006, 05:33 PM
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Many of the icy sats have names related to various ancient and midieval literary sources, like Morte d'Artur for Mimas, The Odyssey for Tethys, and Arabian Nights for Enceladus. So all the names used on Enceladus are from characters and places mentioned in the Arabian Nights.
EDIT: looks like Angel got this. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Nov 15 2006, 06:36 PM
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QUOTE (volcanopele @ Nov 14 2006, 11:14 PM) I've updated the map to fix the incorrect use of Shirin (Al-Haddar crater had the suggested name of Shirin, but it was changed upon approval). I also added a fancy new scale bar. (EDIT: NOW it's updated... stupid case-sensitive file names...) I should also point out that I started a project on Wikipedia to get all these features with names an article. I did this with the older names, and I have now started on the new names. If you would like to help, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geolo...es_on_Enceladus and look for the names highlighted in red to see which ones need names. Keep in mind that the Tiger Stripes have a collective article written before the names are announced: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Stripes_%28Enceladus%29 . See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghanim_%28crater%29 to see how I have been adding each name. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Nov 29 2006, 06:18 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
A new map with names based on the official base map has now been released:
http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/HotTopics/ind...adus-Names.html -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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