{"id":2967,"date":"2013-06-20T06:21:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T06:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islenzka.net\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2013-06-20T06:21:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T06:21:21","slug":"laxness-crater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/laxness-crater\/","title":{"rendered":"Laxness Crater"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HalldorLaxness\"<\/p>\n

The International Astronomical Union has approved a proposal to name a crater on Mercury after Icelandic Nobel Prize winning author Halld\u00f3r Laxness. He joins several other Icelanders who have also had craters on Mercury named after them, like Snorri Sturluson, and artists J\u00fal\u00edana Sveinsd\u00f3ttir and N\u00edna Tryggvad\u00f3ttir. The proposal came from the MESSENGER team at NASA, which manages the probe in orbit around the first planet. MESSENGER was the first spacecraft to ever orbit Mercury. <\/p>\n

G\u00edgur nefndur eftir Halld\u00f3ri Laxness<\/strong><\/a>
\nCrater named after Halldor Laxness<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00d6rnefnanefnd Al\u00fej\u00f3\u00f0asambands stjarnfr\u00e6\u00f0inga sam\u00feykkti \u00ed vikunni till\u00f6gu v\u00edsindamanna a\u00f0 nefna g\u00edg \u00e1 Merk\u00far eftir Halld\u00f3ri Kiljan Laxness. V\u00edsindamennirnir starfa vi\u00f0 MESSENGER lei\u00f0angur Nasa en samnefnt geimfar hefur veri\u00f0 \u00e1 braut um reikistj\u00f6rnuna fr\u00e1 \u00fev\u00ed \u00ed mars \u00e1ri\u00f0 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The naming committee of the International Astronomical Union approved a proposal this week to name a crater on Mercury after Halldor Kiljan Laxness. The scientists work on the MESSENGER project at NASA, and the probe by the same name has been in orbit around the planet since March of 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n

So apparently a\u00f0 vera \u00e1 braut um<\/strong> means to be in orbit around something \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The very first word was a bit confusing since the compound contains two words with the string nefn<\/strong> – look at it as \u00f6rnefna\u00b7nefnd<\/strong>. Since there’s a lot of naming going on, here’s the verb:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
a\u00f0 nefna – to name<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/th>\npresent<\/th>\npast<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00e9g<\/th>\nnefni<\/td>\nnefndi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fe\u00fa<\/th>\nnefnir<\/td>\nnefndir<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fea\u00f0<\/th>\nnefnir<\/td>\nnefndi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
vi\u00f0<\/th>\nnefnum<\/td>\nnefndum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fei\u00f0<\/th>\nnefni\u00f0<\/td>\nnefndu\u00f0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00feau<\/th>\nnefna<\/td>\nnefndu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

G\u00edgurinn, sem kemur til me\u00f0 a\u00f0 heita Laxness, er t\u00e6plega tuttugu og sex k\u00edl\u00f3metrar \u00ed \u00feverm\u00e1l og er staddur skammt nor\u00f0an vi\u00f0 nor\u00f0urp\u00f3l reikistj\u00f6rnunnar. Fleiri g\u00edgar \u00e1 Merk\u00far eru nefndir eftir heims\u00feekktum l\u00e1tnum listam\u00f6nnum, t\u00f3nlistam\u00f6nnum, rith\u00f6fundum e\u00f0a \u00f6\u00f0rum sem sett hafa mark sitt \u00e1 menningu og listir mannkynsins. \u00cdslendingar \u00e1ttu fyrir nokkra fulltr\u00faa \u00e1 reikistj\u00f6rnunni en g\u00edgar hafa einnig veri\u00f0 nefndir eftir sagnaritaranum Snorra Sturlusyni, listakonunni J\u00fal\u00ed\u00f6nu Sveinsd\u00f3ttur og myndlistarkonunni N\u00ednu Tryggvad\u00f3ttur.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The crater, which will be called Laxness, is almost 26 kilometers in diameter and situated just below the north pole of the planet. Other craters on Mercury are named after well-known deceased artists, musicians, writers or others who have left their mark on the art and culture of mankind. Icelanders have several representatives on the planet and craters have also been named after historian Snorri Sturluson, artist J\u00fal\u00edana Sveinsd\u00f3ttir and visual artist N\u00edna Tryggvad\u00f3ttir.<\/em><\/p>\n

I think I got the location right, but wasn’t sure. Skammt<\/strong> is short<\/em>, and nor\u00f0an<\/strong> should mean from the north<\/em>, so near the north pole? I’m guessing it can’t be north of the north pole \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The phrase kemur til me\u00f0 a\u00f0<\/strong> was new to me, it’s mainly expressing that something is going to happen, or will cause something to happen.<\/p>\n

\r\n\u00f6r\u00b7nefni n (-s,-)                       place name\r\nnefnd f (-ar,-ir)                       committee, board\r\nsamband n (-bands,-b\u00f6nd)                union\r\ntillaga f (-l\u00f6gu,-l\u00f6gur)                proposal, motion\r\ng\u00edgur m (-s,-ir\/-ar)                    crater\r\nlei\u00f0angur m (-urs,-rar)                 expedition\r\nsamnefndur adj                          having the same name\r\ngeimfar n (-fars,-f\u00f6r)                  spaceship\r\nreikistjarna f (-stj\u00f6rnu,-stj\u00f6rnur)     planet\r\n\u00fever\u00b7m\u00e1l n (-s,-)                       diameter\r\nskammt adv                              short, shortly\r\nfull\u00b7tr\u00fai m (-a,-ar)                    representative\r\nsagna\u00b7ritari m (-a,-ar)                 historian, chronicler\r\nmynd\u00b7list f (-ar)                       visual arts\r\n<\/pre>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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