Aldrin now has an asteroid and
a crater on the moon named after him.
Conceivably I could have
a crater on the Moon named for me, Marsden said, but I must first become A) famous, and B) dead.
The blinking slide sequence includes images drawn from Leavitt's original annotated photographic plates of variable stars, archival images from the «Human Computers» workplace, and a series of over 20 images of
craters on the moon named after women astronomers.
Not exact matches
Mexico's Chicxulub
crater,
named for a tiny town nearby, looks strikingly similar to Schrödinger
crater on the
moon's far side, shown here in a Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter gravity map.
Kerberos was one of two little satellites that Star Trek actor William Shatner hoped would be
named Vulcan, after the home world of Mr. Spock; although Shatner didn't get his wish, he might be pleased to know that
craters on Pluto's largest
moon, Charon, have been tentatively
named Kirk, Spock, Sulu, and Uhura, all located in a region called Vulcan Planum.
Indeed, within the solar system, the IAU has established many outside - the - mythology - box
naming conventions, such as
craters on Mercury after deceased artists, and Shakespearean characters for Uranus's
moons.
(In German, Japanese and English with subtitles) Mock Up
on Mu (Unrated) Fanciful sci - fi adventure, set in 2019, revolving around the efforts of Scientology founder - turned - real estate developer L. Ron Hubbard (Damon Packard) to colonize and corporatize the
moon, pitching lunar theme parks and
crater naming rights with the help of celebrity Earthlings.