After flying over Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft will pass near a celestial pebble in the Kuiper belt on January 1, 2019. NASA is planning to find a smaller, more friendly name than MU69, with the help of netizens.
The New Horizons spacecraft greatly enriched our knowledge of Pluto after ten years of traveling in the solar system. His mission continues towards the Kuiper belt, with the objective of flying over on January 1, 2019 of one of his celestial objects, the fragment (486958) 2014 MU69, or MU69 for the close friends.
A name that smells good asonomy but is not necessarily very sexy in the eyes of the general public. To make it friendlier, NASA has decided to ask users for their opinion to find a more friendly name.
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Several possibilities are envisaged and it will be up to the public to decide between them, and even to propose new ones.
There are proposals like Año Nuevo (Happy New Year in Spanish), both for the flyover on January 1st but also because MU69 is composed of two lobes that could become Año and Nuevo.Camalor recalls the name of an imaginary city located in the Kuiper belt, according to a novel by Robert Forward, but also Z'ha'dum, in reference to the TV series Babylon 5.
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Chomolungma and Sagarmatha refer to the Tibetan and Nepali names of Everest, cold and distant like the celestial pebble, but there is also Pangu, a character from Chinese mythology, or Mjölnir, the now famous hammer of the god Thor.
The NASA and New Horizons teams are giving each other until January 2018 to decide on the official nickname of MU69.
Source : Frontierworlds.org
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