Pop culture is no exception, as the discoverers required to give asteroids names referring to comics: Dogmatix, Obelix, Panoramix and Asterix are so represented. “La Castafiore and Tournesol are also entitled to their place pebble!”enthusiastically launches Eric Lagadec, briefly enumerating some honored French personalities. For example, we point out Coluche or Florentpagny, without the need of forgetting the illustrious Victor Hugo, who lends his identify to a crater of Mercury.
Even additional unusual is the simple fact that there are mountains on Titan, a satellite of Saturn “named immediately after Tolkien’s Middle-earth”. With the exact spirit, “on Charon, Pluto’s moon, the darkish spot to the north is nicknamed Mordor”. I am not guaranteed, as the professional glides with humor, that everyone would want to undertaking there sometime.
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