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Why Hasn't New Horizons Submitted Feature Names to IAU Yet?

By Keith Cowing

NASA Watch

October 21, 2016

Filed under IAU, NASA, new horizons, Pluto

.@alanstern says New Horizons team has not submitted Pluto nomenclature suggestions to IAU yet. "Informal names" to continue. #DPSEPSC

— Alexandra Witze (@alexwitze) October 18, 2016

By stalling they get more published citations using "informal" #Pluto names – formally – so as to try and force the IAU's hand #DPSEPSC https://t.co/4fV7lUTgpN

— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) October 18, 2016

Keith Cowing

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.

One response to “Why Hasn't New Horizons Submitted Feature Names to IAU Yet?”

ThomasLMatula says:

October 23, 2016 at 9:55 pm

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Maybe Alan Stern is waiting for Pluto to be restored to the status of a planet?

http://www.businessinsider….

In any case there seems to be little love between Alan Stern and the AIU because of what they did to Pluto so submitting names is probably not high on his to do list.