Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Do You Want to Voice Your Opinion and Name Pluto's Moons

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Of course you do.

Although it has been demoted from its planet status (and in my opinion should have never been considered as such), does make Pluto any less an interesting region of our solar system. Not only does the dwarf have an atmosphere, at least for a part of its very long year, but it has a number of moons. Two of which were added just in the last two years. The two newest moons join Hydra, Nix, and Charon, that last of which is probably more of double-dwarf system, but I digress.

The newest found partners in the Plutonian system have been granted the uncermonial names P4 and P5. Now however, the powers that be are taking are opinions for names of P4 and P5. Voting will continue until February 25th and can be found here. The three front runners are Styx, Cerberus, Persephone.

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