KEITH'S 3 APRIL UPDATE: NASA has yet to mention this public engagement project on its own New Horizons website. Nor has JHUAPL. Gee, and there's only 4 days left. Next time perhaps SETI Institute and SwRI will actually get NASA's permission for things like this "before" they go off and tell others (IAU etc.) that they already have NASA's permission - permission they never had, according to NASA sources.
KEITH'S 23 MARCH NOTE: Last week the SETI Institute unilaterally announced an effort whereby the public can suggest names for features discovered within the Pluto-Charon system. The IAU would have the final say as to which names were accepted. One small problem: NASA HQ was not in the loop for this major effort to name things discovered by a NASA spacecraft. It has been several days since SETI Institute made this announcement and there is no mention of this effort at the JHUAPL website, at the NASA mission website, at SwRI, or at NASA.gov. Only the personal Twitter account by the mission's PI mentions this effort. This press release was not distributed by NASA, JHUAPL or SwRI. The SETI Institute did not send this release out to their media list. A third party distributed the information well after it was "released" by SETI.
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