24-11-2017 17:34 via ottawacitizen.com

You, too, can name a space rock formation — even if it's Rocky McRockface

NASA has a probe flying to a space rock with a really boring name, and it’s asking all of us to come up with something more interesting than “(486958) 2014 MU69.”
The New Horizons probe flew past Pluto two years ago and kept on going. And on New Year’s Day of 2019, it will reach a frozen little world in a region called the Kuiper Belt, on the outer frontier of our solar system.
Its destination is a pair of rocks that are either stuck together or orbiting ea
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