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Is it possible that this chasm is named not after the island of Ithaca, but after the gorges of Ithaca, NY, home of Cornell Univ, its astronomy dept. and Carl Sagan? Large, deep gorges run through the Cornell campus. Why else name a chasm after an island? Was the chasm named before the Odysseus impact crater, or vice-versa?

I couldn't agree more - I was about to write the same thing! Lake Ithaca in New York also has a remarkably similar shape to the Ithaca Chamsa. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.91.9.170 (talk) 04:46, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Currently, the article says that the age is estimated to be either "4.0 or 0.4–3.3 billion years". That's very confused (especially since it's unsourced). I'm guessing it's either 4.0 billion years depending on one chronology and somewhere between 0.4-3.3 depending on another but a source would be helpful. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 22:26, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It also says first that the chasma is older than Odysseus crater, then that it's younger, then that it's older. I don't know what's right, but it's inconsistent, so one of them is wrong. 98.210.100.26 (talk) 07:39, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]