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[–] KyJoCaThe2nd 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Has the mountain range been named? I vote for the Mountains of Madness (Montes dementiae?).

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[–] Wmb102er 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

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[–] Chus 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The Mi-Go are going to be pissed with this one...

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[–] DanTdaxp [S] ago 

Too bad we cant cross post, or I would also tag this story for /v/lovecraft.

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[–] YouHaveNoPaoHere ago 

The title is misleading. They didn't find a region that is named Cthulhu. How should they know, that someone already named it anyway? It's only called that informally and this name won't persist as an official name.

According to official rules of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) — the governing body that assigns official scientific monikers to planets and other solar system bodies — land features on Charon will be named after "destinations and milestones of fictional space and other exploration," among other things.

FFeatures on Pluto itself, however, will earn monikers from the underworld, picked from among the world’s mythologies, including gods, goddesses and dwarfs associated with the underworld.

The informal name given to one of the dark regions near Pluto's south pole was initially named "the whale" when scientists first spotted it this week, but now is informally called Cthulhu, which is a frightening-looking deity of the underworld that was created by the writer H.P. Lovecraft.

Other features on Pluto have been informally named Balrog, which is a demon from the Lord of the Rings series, Meng-p’o, which is the Buddhist goddess of forgetfulness and amnesia, and Mayan death gods such as Vucub-Came and Hun-Came.

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[–] DanTdaxp [S] ago 

It may or may not persist. But the great thing about language is that humans make it.

The best example of this is that the "Valley of the Mariners" was adopted as the official name of a geographical feature on Mars, albeit in a latinized form.

How do you say Cthulhu in Latin? ;)

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[–] didntsayeeeee 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Cthvlhv.