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Hawaiian-language experts make their mark on the Solar System

Naming project aims to strengthen Indigenous connections to discoveries made at state’s many telescopes.
  1. Alexandra Witze
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‘Oumuamua is best known as the interstellar visitor that flew through the Solar System in 2017, a cosmic rock on a temporary visit from deep space. But it is also blazing a trail in connecting Hawaiian Indigenous culture with modern astronomy.

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Nature 565, 278-279 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00098-w

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