Caleuche Chasma

Caleuche Chasma is a Y-shaped chasma on Pluto's moon, Charon.[1] Caleuche Chasma is 400 km (250 mi) long. The feature was discovered using stereoscopic processing of New Horizons images. At approximately 13 km (8.1 mi) deep, it is the deepest known feature on the natural satellite,[2] and one of the deepest known canyons in the Solar System.

Caleuche Chasma
Caleuche Chasma can be seen close to the top-left corner of this map
Feature typeChasma
LocationCharon's northern hemisphere
Coordinates72.5°N 241.8°E / 72.5; 241.8[1]
Length400 km
Depth10–16 km
EponymCaleuche, a Chilean legendary ghost ship

Naming

Caleuche Chasma got its official name from the IAU along with eleven other surface features of Charon on 11 April 2018[3] in response to a proposal by NASA's New Horizons team. It is named for the mythical Chilean ghost ship Caleuche. The designation was a part of the Our Pluto initiative by New Horizons, which invited the general public to suggest and vote for names for surface features in the Pluto system. Caleuche was included in the voting on 21 March 2015.[4] It did not make to the initial proposal, sent to the IAU by the New Horizons team on 7 July 2015[5] but was included later.

In 2019, composer and Royal Academy of Music professor David Gorton[6][7] wrote a composition for two cellos titled Caleuche Chasma[8]

See also

References
  1. "Caleuche Chasma". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
  2. Schenk, Paul Michael; Beyer, Ross A.; McKinnon, William B.; Moore, Jeffrey M.; Spencer, John R.; White, Oliver L.; Singer, Kelsi; Umurhan, Orkan M.; Nimmo, Francis; Lauer, Tod R.; Grundy, William M.; Robbins, Stuart; Stern, S. Alan; Weaver, Harold A.; Young, Leslie A.; Smith, K. Ennico; Olkin, Cathy (2018). "Breaking up is hard to do: Global cartography and topography of Pluto's mid-sized icy Moon Charon from New Horizons". Icarus. 315: 124–145. Bibcode:2018Icar..315..124S. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2018.06.010. ISSN 0019-1035. S2CID 125833113.
  3. "International Astronomical Union". IAU. 11 April 2018. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  4. "fictional-vessels - pluto". ourpluto.org. 23 April 2015. Archived from the original on 23 April 2015. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  5. "Charon Theme 3 - pluto-update". ourpluto.org. 15 September 2017. Archived from the original on 15 September 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  6. "David Gorton". Royal Academy of Music. 21 April 2020. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  7. "David Gorton at Verlag neue Musik". Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  8. "Caleuche Chasma in Verlag neue Musik". Retrieved 5 September 2020.


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