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[edit] Chang'e 1
The lunar orbiter Chang'e 1 was launched today, so any help y'all feel like providing to the article would be useful! Ben Hocking (talk|contribs) 16:43, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Mare
Was just reading the article on the Mare Imbrium. Seems a rather glaring error to state that the mare formed as a result of the impact. There is an obvious spatial relationship between the impact basins and the mare (produced by volcanic flows), but this has to do with the low elevation of the basins rather than the impact itself producing volcanism. Should fix that.
* The Geology of the Terrestrial Planets, NASA SP-469 (1984), Chapter 6 (Moon), pages 163-177 (maria). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.10.139.123 (talk) 10:12, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Surface features of celestial bodies
categories of Surface features of celestial bodies has been nominated to rename from cat:X on Y to cat:X of Y. See Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 December 9#Surface features of celestial bodiesSurface features of celestial bodies 132.205.99.122 (talk) 20:18, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Subcategorizing craters based on lunar quadrangles
The category Category:Craters on the Moon has nearly 2000 articles in it, a rather unweildy number to browse through. For a long time now I've been on the lookout for some universally recognized means of dividing up the Moon's surface into subregions so that this category could be split up and I believe I've finally found one. The USGS has divided the Moon into 30 quadrangles for the purpose of producing 1:2,500,000 maps; their project page is at [1] and I've created an article at List of quadrangles on the Moon. Mars has a similar layout of quadrangles, so as a test case I created Template:Mars quadrangle and modified Template:MarsGeo-Crater so that it automatically categorized craters on Mars into the subcategories of Category:Surface features of Mars by quadrangle. I'm pleased to announce that the system appears to be working perfectly and as of this writing I've received no death threats yet from Wikipedia:WikiProject Mars.
I designed it with Template:Lunar crater data specifically in mind, so I created the analogous Template:Lunar quadrangle mostly by copying and pasting proven template code. I'm now ready to do the same to the lunar crater articles. However, I figured I should give a heads-up here to see if there were any objections or suggestions before I went ahead. There is one difference in particular; as of this writing only one Lunar quadrangle has a name yet, so I was going to use the quadrangle numbers instead. I've emailed the principle investigator on the mapping project (Dr. Lisa Gaddis) and she told me that the project was likely going to get going on more quadrangles in 2008, so hopefully more names will be turning up soon (she actually asked me for suggestions. I demurred since I'm no selenologist, but if anyone here wants to get involved in that it'd be an interesting case :). In the meantime, here's the pattern I was planning on using for the categories: Category:LQ01 quadrangle, Category:LQ02 quadrangle, and so forth. Bryan Derksen (talk) 04:52, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
There, I've thrown the switch. See Category:Geological features on the Moon by quadrangle. If this meets with general approval I'll eventually create a navigational table like I did with Category:Surface features of Mars by quadrangle. Bryan Derksen (talk) 22:31, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] International Year of Astronomy 2009
2009 has been proclaimed as the International Year of Astronomy. It would be great to tie in with this, both to help with the aims of the international year and to spur extra improvements to Wikipedia's coverage of astronomy. I've started a thread about this over at WikiProject Astronomy; please have a look and join in with the conversation. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:44, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
