{"id":134447,"date":"2019-12-19T13:10:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T13:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=134447"},"modified":"2019-12-19T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:16:08","slug":"dr-names-a-star-and-a-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/12\/19\/dr-names-a-star-and-a-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"DR names a star and a planet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Marvin-del-Cid-Diario-Libre.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-134477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Marvin-del-Cid-Diario-Libre.png 600w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Marvin-del-Cid-Diario-Libre-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Taino Indian names M\u00e1rohu and Boinayel<br> were approved for a star and planet as part of the Name ExoWorld, the global project organized by the International Astronomical Union in celebration of its first 100 years. Journalist Marvin Cid of Diario Libre proposed the names that were among the winners announced by the IAU on 17 December 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The contest was organized here through the Dominican Astronomical Society (Astrodom), the local partner of the International Astronomical Union. Mayt\u00e9 V\u00e1squez was the coordinator. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The M\u00e1rohu is the Taino Indian god of drought, protector of the sun. Boinayel is the rain god who fertilizes the soil. The two indigenous deities are engraved into a stalagmite that can be seen in the El Puente Cave in Boca de Yuma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NameExoWorlds project gave countries around the world the chance to name one planetary system, comprising of an exoplanet and its host star. Each country&#8217;s designated star is visible from that country, and sufficiently bright to be observed through small telescopes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A feature in Diario Libre on 18 December 2019, gives credit also to cave specialist Domingo Abreu Collado for having &#8220;rediscovered&#8221; the El Puente Cave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/ciencia\/marohu-y-boinayel-la-estrella-y-el-exoplaneta-que-colocan-a-rd-en-el-mapa-astronomico-PO15938025\">Diario Libre<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iau.org\/news\/pressreleases\/detail\/iau1912\/\">IAU<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nameexoworlds.iau.org\/final-results\">Name ExoWorlds<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 December 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taino Indian names M\u00e1rohu and Boinayel were approved for a star and planet as part of the Name ExoWorld, the global project organized by the International Astronomical Union in celebration of its first 100 years. Journalist Marvin Cid of Diario Libre proposed the names that were among the winners announced by the IAU on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/12\/19\/dr-names-a-star-and-a-planet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134478,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134447\/revisions\/134478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}