"It's quite a big undertaking going through every named feature in the whole solar system and trying to find out who that person was."
When PhD student Annie Lennox discovered a crater on Mercury, she got the chance to name it. Which sent her on a bigger space mission.
Allusionist 178. Uranus
Have you ever wondered why the planets in our solar system are all named after Roman deities, except two of them? One of those exceptions is Earth. The other is Uranus.
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photo by Kings Place
A new Allusionist live show has arrived! The first performance was yesterday, and I haven’t booked in other gigs yet*, so it might be the only performance, TBD.
Good news though: the show is still available thanks to the Kings Place player for a month! So you can watch it HERE until 4 October 2021. Get it, get it now!
And you should, because the show is packed full of entertainment, music and EPONYMS. We’ve got the Bechdel Test, uzis, the Thatcher Effect, pilates, Shirley Temples, saxophones AND saxtubas. Venn diagrams, the Myers-Briggs test, Morse Code, Veuve Cliquot and Uranus.
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