Talk:Tranquility Base

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[edit] The reason for the page move

The official International Astronomical Union Latin name is "Statio Tranquillitatis" which may be the best name for this article.

The NASA website uses Tranquility Base 148 times ([1]) to only 6 for Tranquillity Base ([2]). Tranquility Base is the more popular Google search result. The Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/) gives the translation as "Sea of Tranquility" (they uses the IAU's Working-Group for Planetary System Nomenclature database). From the same website, the official IAU name for "Tranquility Base" is "Statio Tranquillitatis" ([3]). Here is the NASA audio and transcript from Apollo 11: [4]. NASA uses the following address: US Space & Rocket Center, One Tranquility Base, Huntsville, Ala. ^BlankVerse 07:16, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Coordinates

I guess it doesn't make too much sense to link the coordinates to the GeoHack tool as long as there is only mapping of the Earth (readers are directed to a point somewhere in the Atlantic), therefore I have delinked the coordinates. Should there be one day a tool that has maps of the moon to be directed to, that would be a fine service, of course. --Proofreader 12:42, 13 January 2007 (UTC)