{"id":19895,"date":"2025-01-13T21:01:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T22:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19895"},"modified":"2025-01-13T22:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T22:24:43","slug":"after-a-naming-contest-cardea-joins-the-celestial-ranks-as-a-quasi-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19895","title":{"rendered":"After a Naming Contest, Cardea Joins the Celestial Ranks as a Quasi-Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The W.N.Y.C. science program \u201cRadiolab\u201d partnered with the International Astronomical Union to solicit nearly 3,000 submissions. The Roman goddess of doorways and transitions won out.<\/p>\n

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For thousands of years, Cardea has been known as the Roman goddess of doorways and transitions, a guardian of thresholds. On Monday, she joined the celestial ranks of fellow mythological figures like Mars, Venus and Andromeda.<\/p>\n

But Cardea is not a planet or a constellation. She is as a quasi-moon \u2014 a very-real type of asteroid that appears to be doing a special orbital dance around Earth.<\/p>\n

The International Astronomical Union, the organization of scientists charged with awarding official names to space objects, selected Cardea through a naming contest that generated more than 2,700 entries. The winning name was submitted by Clayton Chilcutt, 19, a sophomore from the University of Georgia, who participated in the contest as part of an extra credit assignment in an introductory astronomy class.<\/p>\n

\u201cI came across Cardea, and when you read the description, it just sounds celestial,\u201d said Mr. Chilcutt, an accounting and finance major, adding that his \u201csmall contribution to science\u201d was now part of the history books.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The contest was sponsored in part by the popular W.N.Y.C. audio program \u201cRadiolab,\u201d which featured an episode about a quasi-moon near Venus<\/a> last year after Latif Nasser<\/a>, one of the hosts, found himself staring at an astronomy poster<\/a> on his son\u2019s wall. On the poster, Venus had a moon, and the moon had a quirky name: \u201cZoozve.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The W.N.Y.C. science program \u201cRadiolab\u201d partnered with the International Astronomical Union to solicit nearly 3,000 submissions. The Roman goddess of doorways and transitions won out.For thousands of years, Cardea has been known as the Roman goddess of doorways and transitions, a guardian of thresholds. On Monday, she joined the celestial ranks of fellow mythological figures like Mars, Venus and Andromeda.But Cardea is not a planet or a constellation. She is as a quasi-moon \u2014 a very-real type of asteroid that appears to be doing a special orbital dance around Earth.The International Astronomical Union, the organization of scientists charged with awarding official names to space objects, selected Cardea through a naming contest that generated more than 2,700 entries. The winning name was submitted by Clayton Chilcutt, 19, a sophomore from the University of Georgia, who participated in the contest as part of an extra credit assignment in an introductory astronomy class.\u201cI came across Cardea, and when you read the description, it just sounds celestial,\u201d said Mr. Chilcutt, an accounting and finance major, adding that his \u201csmall contribution to science\u201d was now part of the history books.The contest was sponsored in part by the popular W.N.Y.C. audio program \u201cRadiolab,\u201d which featured an episode about a quasi-moon near Venus last year after Latif Nasser, one of the hosts, found himself staring at an astronomy poster on his son\u2019s wall. On the poster, Venus had a moon, and the moon had a quirky name: \u201cZoozve.\u201dLatif Nasser, a \u201cRadiolab\u201d host.Joyce Kim for The New York TimesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19897,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19898,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19895\/revisions\/19898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}