help name pluto's moons

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help name pluto's moons
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AWOLangel	Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:15 pm Post #1
Posts: 36,542 Group: DS9 Nirvana Member #25 Joined: January 17, 2006	Quote: If you've ever wanted to leave your mark on the heavens, here's your chance. Astronomers are asking for help in naming two newly discovered moons of Pluto, which currently go by the uninspired monikers P4 and P5. The tiny satellites were spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2011 and 2012, respectively. Pluto's three other known moons — Charon, Nix and Hydra — are named for Greek mythological characters associated with the underworld. The short list of names that interested members of the public can vote on for the new moons follow that same pattern, researchers said. the rest of the story & where to vote here
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Alisium	Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:21 pm Post #2
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Mitchz95	Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:29 pm Post #3
100 post angel Posts: 108 Group: 100 Post Angel Member #6,070 Joined: May 16, 2012	I voted Styx and Persephone.
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spocklet	Tue Feb 12, 2013 2:22 am Post #4
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wissaboo	Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:22 am Post #5
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stigmata	Tue Feb 12, 2013 1:06 pm Post #6
Posts: 1,750 Group: 1000 post Angel Ent Member #6,007 Joined: March 26, 2011	Considering there are planets bigger than Jupiter that are currently going around unnamed, it hardly seems worth the bother in this case.



Mitchz95	Tue Feb 12, 2013 2:09 pm Post #7
100 post angel Posts: 108 Group: 100 Post Angel Member #6,070 Joined: May 16, 2012	stigmata Tue Feb 12, 2013 1:06 pm Considering there are planets bigger than Jupiter that are currently going around unnamed, it hardly seems worth the bother in this case. Agreed. Save the good names for the exoplanets, especially the ones in star systems near ours.
	"The future is in the hands of those who explore... And from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love." - Jacques-Yves Cousteau


stigmata	Tue Feb 12, 2013 2:13 pm Post #8
Posts: 1,750 Group: 1000 post Angel Ent Member #6,007 Joined: March 26, 2011	I suppose you can make the case that humans are likely to visit these moons of Pluto in the next 100-200 years, and may never visit any of these other solar systems, but still.



Lus	Tue Feb 12, 2013 2:15 pm Post #9
Sherlock... I mean... KHANNNNNNN Posts: 25,544 Group: Vulcan Nirvana Member #14 Joined: November 18, 2005	wissaboo Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:22 am Goofy Mickey
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Alisium	Tue Feb 12, 2013 4:07 pm Post #10
Womb-Raider Posts: 5,003 Group: maco 5000 post angel Member #1,345 Joined: October 19, 2007	stigmata Tue Feb 12, 2013 1:06 pm Considering there are planets bigger than Jupiter that are currently going around unnamed, it hardly seems worth the bother in this case. Yeah, but that's in someone else's neighborhood. We don't want to push our cultural identities on them. And we can't have guest come in our solar system and not have everything named. How rude would that be?



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