Astronomy:Sharaf Regio

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Short description: Region of Pluto
Sharaf Regio
The Brass Knuckles chain of equatorial dark regions on Pluto, with Sharaf Regio labeled as "Ala"
Feature typeRegio
LocationPluto
Coordinates [ ⚑ ] : 11°23′S 238°40′E / 11.38°S 238.67°E / -11.38; 238.67
EponymShafika Gil’mievna Sharaf

Sharaf Regio (formerly Ala Macula) is the smallest of the "Brass Knuckles", a series of equatorial dark regions on Pluto. It was initially informally named Ala Macula after Ala ig "earth", the chthonic and most important deity of the Igbo people.[1][2] The International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially approved the name Sharaf Regio after Shafika Gil’mievna Sharaf, a Soviet astronomer who developed an analytical theory for Pluto's motion.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Chang, Kenneth (14 July 2015). "NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Completes Flyby of Pluto". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/15/science/space/nasa-new-horizons-spacecraft-reaches-pluto.html. Retrieved 14 July 2015. 
  2. ↑ Rogers, Adam (14 July 2015). "The New, Nerdy Mythology of Pluto's Place Names". Wired. https://www.wired.com/2015/07/new-nerdy-mythology-plutos-place-names/. Retrieved 14 July 2015. 
  3. ↑ "Sharaf Regio". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. IAU/NASA/USGS. https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/16341. 
  4. ↑ Gil’mievna, Shafika; Budnikova, N. A. (1969). Theory of Motion of the Planet Pluto Part 1. NASA. https://books.google.com/books?id=zGTxAAAAMAAJ. 



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