News Archive / Tagged: International Astronomical Union
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Scientists debate planet definition, status of Pluto
Laurel KornfeldMay 5th, 2019Scientists Ron Ekers and Alan Stern debated the planet definition and the status of Pluto in an event sponsored by the Philosophical Society of Washington.
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Our SpaceFlight Heritage: Two craters named in honor of Apollo 8
Tomasz NowakowskiOctober 10th, 2018This December marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission to the Moon. The International Astronomical Union has found a special way to honor the occasion.
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New Horizons sets flight plan for 2nd target; IAU accepts Pluto system names
Laurel KornfeldSeptember 9th, 2017NASA's New Horizons mission has filed a flight plan for its January 1, 2019, flyby of Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) 2014 MU69, which will bring the spacecraft three times closer to its second target than it came to Pluto during the upcoming encounter.
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Name themes for Pluto system features approved by IAU
Laurel KornfeldFebruary 26th, 2017A set of naming themes for features on Pluto and its five moons, informally used by the New Horizons mission, has been approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), which has overseen the naming of celestial objects and their surface features since 1919.
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Six New Horizons scientists propose geophysical planet definition
Laurel KornfeldFebruary 8th, 2017Six scientists who work on NASA's New Horizons mission propose a geophysical planet definition in an abstract from a presentation to be made at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
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Ten years later, IAU Pluto vote remains controversial
Laurel KornfeldAugust 24th, 2016In the decade that has passed since the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) controversial vote that demoted Pluto from planet status, people around the world have seen what was once little more than a tiny dot transformed into a complex world via NASA's New Horizons mission.
