Re: proposed name for Saturnian moon S/2005 S1

In article <1kl491lef650orv2mu1626h1ijo5l35rme@xxxxxxx>,
OM <om@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>If memory serves, actually, a lot of the informal Apollo names -- not all
>>of them, but quite a few -- *have* been blessed by the IAU.
>
>...But from what I've been able to gather, Mount Marilyn has *not*,
>and the craters named for the A1 crew are still on the far side, right?

Mount Marilyn I'm not sure about.

But last I heard, you're correct that craters Grissom, White, and Chaffee
have not moved. :-) Trouble is, the nearside has been mapped for so long
that even quite small craters had pre-spaceflight names. The only way to
name *noticeable* craters -- ones that would be marked in typical maps --
after the Apollo 1 crew was to go to the farside.

Don't complain too much. They also have *stars* named after them -- by an
underhanded route -- and that's a rare distinction indeed.

(Three of the stars in the Apollo navigation-star list did not have names,
at least not that the astronomer helping with Apollo navigation work knew,
and so the crew talked him into giving them some... Navi after Virgil
*Ivan* Grisson, Dnoces after Edward H. White *II*, Regor after *Roger*
Chaffee. And those names have since shown up in other star catalogs.
Turns out that Navi and Dnoces already had relatively-obscure names, but
still...)
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