Arrokoth’s Prominent Features Given Official Names planetaryscience space science
Three prominent features on Arrokoth now have official names. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.
In January 2019, New Horizons yielded a range of images and data that are helping planetary scientists understand how objects like Arrokoth — the building blocks of the planets — form. It also resembles the word for ‘snake’ in this language — ‘kan’ — and both terms derive from the classical Mayan word, ‘chan.’
The most reflective area on Arrokoth, the neck is named ‘Akasa,’ the word for ‘sky’ in Bengali , and derived from similar words in Sanskrit , Nepali , Malayalam , Oriya , Sinhalese , Tamil and Telugu .
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