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China Names Chang'e 3 Lunar Landing Site 'Guang Han Gong' Or 'Moon Palace' (examiner.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the give-it-a-name dept.

MarkWhittington writes: One of the privileges of landing on the moon is that the country that does so gets to name the landing site. For example, the International Astronomical Union has officially recognized "Tranquility Base", using the Latin designation "Statio Tranquillitatis", as the site where the Apollo 11 astronauts first landed and walked on the moon on July 20, 1969. Now, according to a story in Moon Daily, the site where the Chinese Chang'e 3 probe landed has been named "Guang Han Gong" which translates as "Moon Palace." The name has also been recognized by the IAU.

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  1. Moon Palace by turkeydance · · Score: 2

    NOW we have the band's name....

  2. What a coincidence. by 110010001000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Moon Palace is the name of my favorite local Chinese restaurant.

  3. Palatio Lunaris? by Ecuador · · Score: 2

    So, if the IAU accepted "Tranquility Base" in the Latin equivalent, I assume something similar happened with the Moon Palace name, right? There's no such mention in TFA, but I don't see why it would not be so...

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  4. Re:Sounds like the name of a brothel, by tobiah · · Score: 2

    cheese

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  5. Re:Palace by thisisauniqueid · · Score: 4, Informative

    Who's palace is this?

    Chang'e's, obviously :-) (She's the Chinese goddess of the moon.)

  6. Re:A tasteful name for once by Holi · · Score: 2

    Isn't anime traditionally Japanese or Korean?

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