Cumbrian Sky

Not in person, sadly, but you can send your NAME to the Moon by going to a NASA website and adding your name to the list of names being taken to the Moon on a disc which will be fitted to NASA's Lunar Reconaissance Orbiter probe, due for lift off later this year. You can send your name, names of family members, pets, anyone you like... or even the name of your favourite astronomy blog...!

Unlike the star-naming scam / con / trick this is entirely legitimate, absolutely free, and purely for fun. Here's what the Cumbrian Sky certificate looks like, and yours would look exactly the same when you printed it out...

Full size here

I've also added "EDDINGTON ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY" to the list of names too, because it's very fitting: there's a large crater on the Moon named after Sir Arthur Eddington. Only fair the Society of his name should orbit it too!

If you want to send your name to the Moon it's simple: just go to the NASA website...

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• #1 Comment from memes121 
  5/2/08 7:49 AM | Permalink

  Oh cool! Tammy