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Astro Bob blog: Wanted: Names for Pluto's cracks, cliffs and craters

Here's your chance to suggest and vote on names for all the newly-discovered craters, cliffs, cracks and gosh-knows-what-else New Horizon's camera will see when the spacecraft flies past the dwarf planet on July 14.

1609486+Pluto pre and post flyby NASA.jpg — Not much to name in our current view of Pluto (left). That will all change during the July flyby when New Horizons will image features down to 1 mile (1.6 km) across. NASA photo

By Robert King

March 24, 2015 at 3:03 PM

Here's your chance to suggest and vote on names for all the newly-discovered craters, cliffs, cracks and gosh-knows-what-else New Horizon's camera will see when the spacecraft flies past the dwarf planet on July 14.

By Robert King