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Originally Posted by Eroica
Simple. When you mentioned lateral thinking, I tried Googling "Paks Venus". The second site mentioned the recent Venus transit and that put eclipses into my head...
Irishmen in the Moon
Name nine lunar features named after Irishmen (The person who names the ninth gets the cigar.)
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Soooo - I list the people here. The bold names are the names of the features. Links lead to images of the features (all craters, by the way):
John
Birmingham
George F.
Fitzgerald
Sir William A.
Hamilton
Eric M.
Lindsay
Thomas
McLear
Robert
Mallet
Joseph Barclay
Pentland
Thomas Romney
Robinson
William Parsons, Earl of
Rosse
I prefer
Santa Damiana, from the Dominican Republic.
Just as an extra (and as substitutes in case I made some mistake), there are two more Irishmen (yes, all men) on the Moon:
Sir Edward
Sabine
George J.
Stoney
Also, let's not forget that two names,
Alan and
Kathleen, after which craters are named, are considered to be of Irish origin.
If you'd like to look up Lunar feature names and their origins,
here is my source.