Greg Egan on Nostr: Calling the spacecraft that visits the asteroid Psyche, umm, Psyche, seems both ...
Calling the spacecraft that visits the asteroid Psyche, umm, Psyche, seems both confusing and unimaginative. Surely they could have come up with a better name? Then again, the most obvious mythic choice, Cupid, is also the name of a moon of Uranus.
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