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Students re-name GRAIL A and B Moon probes
William Atkins
Wednesday, 18 January 2012 23:45
Montana students have won a NASA contest to rename twin probes that are currently orbiting about the Moon. The less-than-exiting names of GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B were renamed Ebb and Flow, respectively.
The AFP article 'Students rename NASA moon probes Ebb and Flow' quotes the principal investigator for the GRAIL mission Maria Zuber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Dr. Zuber stated, "We were so busy in the design and getting these two spacecraft launched on time that when we gave them names, we gave them names of A and B, and that isn't too creative. So we asked the youth of America to assist us.'
The GRAIL mission is to analyze the gravitational field of the Moon and to learn more about its inner core.
The winners of the re-naming contest held by NASA were the 28 fourth-grade students at Emily Dickinson Elementary School in Bozeman, Montana. Their teacher is Nina DiMauro.
Zuber comments on the names provided by these Bozeman students, "They noted the fact that GRAIL is going to be studying gravity on the Moon, and that the effect of gravity on the Earth is seen every day in terms of tides.'
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