I could drink a crater of you tonight
Aug. 11th, 2012 05:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceWell, that was annoying.
The internet was cheerfully telling me that Camille Flammarion had a crater named after him on Mars, and so did his wife Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion; but of course there's only one Flammarion Crater, so I was cheerfully inventing a hissy-fit between their ghosts - "It's named after me!" "No, after me! They didn't name it till after I died, so obviously it is mine!" - before I smote my head and cried D'oh! and checked Google Mars and yup. Renaudot Crater, of course. If my several sources of information had troubled to give me coordinates, I would have figured this sooner.* Hey-ho.
(In sideways news, she outlived him by nearly forty years - but then, he was thirty-five years older than she was when they wed. Both ends of that interest me: generational divides in marriage and long widowhoods. I need to write more novels.)
In other news, it's the weekend and I have earwormed myself with Joni Mitchell, so yup. First bottle of wine opened, and being drunk in honour of Camille and Gabrielle (both of whom also have asteroids named after them, but they are 107 Camilla and 355 Gabriella, for reasons not known to your correspondent**).
*Or, of course, they could just have said "Renaudot Crater is named in her honour," rather than the misleading "She has a crater on Mars named in her honour."
**Yes, yes, there is also an asteroid 1021 Flammario, but who can say which one that is named for? And at least they're consistent with that change-the-last-letter thing. Or drop it. His sister Berthe has an asteroid called 154 Bertha, his first wife Sylvie has 87 Sylvia, and even his observatory at Juvisy-sur-Orge has 605 Juvisia.
The internet was cheerfully telling me that Camille Flammarion had a crater named after him on Mars, and so did his wife Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion; but of course there's only one Flammarion Crater, so I was cheerfully inventing a hissy-fit between their ghosts - "It's named after me!" "No, after me! They didn't name it till after I died, so obviously it is mine!" - before I smote my head and cried D'oh! and checked Google Mars and yup. Renaudot Crater, of course. If my several sources of information had troubled to give me coordinates, I would have figured this sooner.* Hey-ho.
(In sideways news, she outlived him by nearly forty years - but then, he was thirty-five years older than she was when they wed. Both ends of that interest me: generational divides in marriage and long widowhoods. I need to write more novels.)
In other news, it's the weekend and I have earwormed myself with Joni Mitchell, so yup. First bottle of wine opened, and being drunk in honour of Camille and Gabrielle (both of whom also have asteroids named after them, but they are 107 Camilla and 355 Gabriella, for reasons not known to your correspondent**).
*Or, of course, they could just have said "Renaudot Crater is named in her honour," rather than the misleading "She has a crater on Mars named in her honour."
**Yes, yes, there is also an asteroid 1021 Flammario, but who can say which one that is named for? And at least they're consistent with that change-the-last-letter thing. Or drop it. His sister Berthe has an asteroid called 154 Bertha, his first wife Sylvie has 87 Sylvia, and even his observatory at Juvisy-sur-Orge has 605 Juvisia.