{"id":1655,"date":"2009-09-29T15:02:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T12:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wlcu.biz\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2025-05-13T19:05:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:05:44","slug":"a-newly-discovered-place-in-mercury-was-named-gibran-29-september-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/1655\/","title":{"rendered":"A newly discovered place in Mercury was named Gibran &#8211; 29 September 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wlcu.world\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mercury-gibran.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1658\" alt=\"mercury gibran\" src=\"http:\/\/wlcu.world\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mercury-gibran.jpg\" width=\"189\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The World Federation of &#8220;Gibran studies&#8221; declared that an unprecedented scientific breakthrough \u200ehas been achieved by the Lebanese astronomical scientist, Dr. Nelly Mouawad at the University \u200eof Maryland.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>On July 9 the &#8220;International Union for Astronomy&#8221; approved in a formal meeting, to label a new \u200eplace on the planet Mercury, with a radius of 100 km, the name of Gebran Khalil Gebran.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Nelly Mouawad completed high school at the \u201cSagesse Institute\u201d in Beirut, and joined the \u200eUniversity of Cologne in Germany to obtain a doctorate in astronomy. She is currently a \u200eresearcher with the Department of Astronomy at the University of Maryland, and operates in \u200ecoordination with the Gibran Academy at the same university.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>The core of Moawad studies is the configuration of the interior of the planet Mercury using \u200einformation from Earth, and others from the &#8220;MESSENGER&#8221; team, specialists on the planet \u200eMercury , thanks to which Many picture of Mercury where seen on Earth. This led to the \u200ediscovery of new areas previously unkown. Usually such areas are not labeled unless scientists \u200eare sure that they are of the utmost importance, scientifically and astronomically, to the planet.\u200e<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Moawad suggested during a special science meeting to name\u00a0 one of these newly discovered \u200eareas &#8220;Gibran&#8221;, and she gathered information and documents to support her proposal and \u200esubmitted them to the labels committee that in return submitted them to the International Union \u200efor Astronomy. The proposal was accepted in their last meeting on July 9.\u200e<br \/>\nThe name of Amin Rihani is also proposed, and waits for the completion of the documentation to \u200ebe labeled. Earlier, The Committee agreed to designate some areas of Mercury by different \u200enames such as &#8220;Amroo el Kais&#8221;, &#8220;Aljahez&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;Alkhtal&#8221;, and \u201cAbou Nawas&#8221;.\u200e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Federation of &#8220;Gibran studies&#8221; declared that an unprecedented scientific breakthrough \u200ehas been achieved by the Lebanese astronomical scientist, Dr. Nelly Mouawad at the University \u200eof Maryland.\u200e On July 9 the &#8220;International Union for Astronomy&#8221; approved in a formal meeting, to label a new \u200eplace on the planet Mercury, with a radius of 100 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[995,1020,1026],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-commission-for-science-technology-engineering-and-mathematics","category-beautiful-lebanon","category-great-achievements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18907,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/18907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}