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| | =The Lunar Craters Houston, Florida and Texas= | | =The Lunar Craters Houston, Florida and Texas= |
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| | <em>map from[mailto:pjstooke@uwo.ca Phil Stooke]</em></p> | | <em>map from[mailto:pjstooke@uwo.ca Phil Stooke]</em></p> |
| | <p>The fascination with feature names is a surprising but powerful aspect of lunar exploration and observation. Names are critical for unambiguous communication, explaining why there are many [http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/IAU+nomenclature official], [http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/5320/index.html unofficial], and [http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/Nomenclature+Zoo no longer official] lunar designations. This LPOD, and tomorrow’s, feature little known names that were never meant to be official nor even learned of by other people who study the Moon. In his soon to be released <em>[http://publish.uwo.ca/~pjstooke/atlas.htm The International Atlas of Lunar Exploration]</em>, Phil Stooke maps features that were named during the planning for [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/Apollo8/Apollo8.html Apollo 8’s] first ever passage around the farside of the Moon. These <em>Farside Communications Designators</em> were selected so astronauts and mission controllers could describe features under the Apollo 8 farside groundtrack, where there were only a few offical names from Luna 3. The Apollo 8 names were of very familiar NASA places and people, perhaps so that users of the names would have little trouble remembering them. Thanks, Phil, for saving this piece of nomenclatural history from oblivion!</p> | | <p>The fascination with feature names is a surprising but powerful aspect of lunar exploration and observation. Names are critical for unambiguous communication, explaining why there are many [http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/IAU+nomenclature official], [http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/5320/index.html unofficial], and [http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/Nomenclature+Zoo no longer official] lunar designations. This LPOD, and tomorrow’s, feature little known names that were never meant to be official nor even learned of by other people who study the Moon. In his soon to be released <em>[http://publish.uwo.ca/~pjstooke/atlas.htm The International Atlas of Lunar Exploration]</em>, Phil Stooke maps features that were named during the planning for [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/Apollo8/Apollo8.html Apollo 8’s] first ever passage around the farside of the Moon. These <em>Farside Communications Designators</em> were selected so astronauts and mission controllers could describe features under the Apollo 8 farside groundtrack, where there were only a few offical names from Luna 3. The Apollo 8 names were of very familiar NASA places and people, perhaps so that users of the names would have little trouble remembering them. Thanks, Phil, for saving this piece of nomenclatural history from oblivion!</p> |
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| | The background map is Apollo Lunar Flight Chart.</p> | | The background map is Apollo Lunar Flight Chart.</p> |
| | <p align="center"><em>You can support LPOD when you buy ANY book from Amazon thru </em><em>[[LPOD]]</em></p> | | <p align="center"><em>You can support LPOD when you buy ANY book from Amazon thru </em><em>[[LPOD]]</em></p> |
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