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''It's Nobbys Head, Jim, but not as we know it.''
GROUND control to Captain Cook: ''It's Nobbys Head, Jim, but not as we know it.''
The famous landmark at the entrance to Newcastle Harbour has just gained interplanetary recognition after a feature on Mars was named after it.
Nobbys Head on the Martian landscape is close to other features with names that have a familiar ring - Cape York, Botany Bay, Endeavour Crater and Cape Tribulation.
The name was chosen by NASA at the suggestion, 14 months ago, of Col Maybury, the president of the Astronomical Society of the Hunter.
The adoption of the name comes as the robotic rover Opportunity trundles across the red planet sending information on new features.
Almost 2½ centuries separate the discovery of the two Nobbys Heads. The then Lieutenant Cook discovered the nearer on May 10, 1770 from the HM Bark Endeavour.
''I am absolutely stoked. I talked with NASA and we got on well and I begged them to do it,'' Mr Maybury said. ''Believe it or not, Nobbys Head on Mars looks very much like Nobbys Head in Newcastle.''
The scientist who named the features is Raymond Arvidson.
Space image stock courtesy of valkiria-stock.deviantart.com/art/Space-backgrounds-11390...
''It's Nobbys Head, Jim, but not as we know it.''
GROUND control to Captain Cook: ''It's Nobbys Head, Jim, but not as we know it.''
The famous landmark at the entrance to Newcastle Harbour has just gained interplanetary recognition after a feature on Mars was named after it.
Nobbys Head on the Martian landscape is close to other features with names that have a familiar ring - Cape York, Botany Bay, Endeavour Crater and Cape Tribulation.
The name was chosen by NASA at the suggestion, 14 months ago, of Col Maybury, the president of the Astronomical Society of the Hunter.
The adoption of the name comes as the robotic rover Opportunity trundles across the red planet sending information on new features.
Almost 2½ centuries separate the discovery of the two Nobbys Heads. The then Lieutenant Cook discovered the nearer on May 10, 1770 from the HM Bark Endeavour.
''I am absolutely stoked. I talked with NASA and we got on well and I begged them to do it,'' Mr Maybury said. ''Believe it or not, Nobbys Head on Mars looks very much like Nobbys Head in Newcastle.''
The scientist who named the features is Raymond Arvidson.
Space image stock courtesy of valkiria-stock.deviantart.com/art/Space-backgrounds-11390...