Marek,
IIRC, he started naming them for places from Homer's Odyssey. When he
ran out of those, he moved on to other Greek sources. I'll try to dig
up the reference for you when I get home tonight.
Bob
--- Marek Cichanski <marekc@No-Spam> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a source that lists the meanings of the classical
> names
> for Martian albedo features? As far as I know, these names were
> mostly
> assigned by Schiaparelli.
>
> I have Googled 'til I can't Google no more, but I haven't had any
> luck so
> far. There are a number of sites that talk about the history of the
> observation of Mars, and even a couple of entire online books,
> including
> Lowell's, but I haven't found anything that lists the meanings and/or
> origins of the names. I know what some of them mean, like Nix
> Olympica (the
> "Snows of Olympus"), but I'm stumped by many of them, such as
> Mnemonia,
> Trivium, Meroe, Erythraeum, etc...
>
> Just curious,
>
> --- Marek Cichanski
>
>
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