In 2016 I discovered that a mountain on the planet Ceres had officially been named "Ysolo Mons" after the Albanian festival that marks the start of the annual eggplant harvest.
There is no such festival. An anonymous Wikipedia editor had made it up and inserted it into Wikipedia's list of harvest festivals in 2012. Someone at NASA used the Wikipedia list for naming features on Ceres. (Ceres was the Roman goddess of agriculture.)
I wrote to the US geological survey to point this out. They changed the name of the mountain.
There is no such festival. An anonymous Wikipedia editor had made it up and inserted it into Wikipedia's list of harvest festivals in 2012. Someone at NASA used the Wikipedia list for naming features on Ceres. (Ceres was the Roman goddess of agriculture.)
I wrote to the US geological survey to point this out. They changed the name of the mountain.
Full story on my blog: https://blog.plover.com/wikipedia/ysolo.html