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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Nilima Marshall

Guidelines for naming planet’s surface features ‘biased towards men’

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The guidelines for naming a planet’s surface features are not inclusive enough and are biased towards men, an academic has said, as research shows fewer than 2% of Mars’s craters are named after women.

An analysis of the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) database has also revealed that only 32 (2%) out of 1,578 known Moon craters bear a woman’s name.

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