News What Should be the Name of Pluto’s Fourth Moon? Mickey or Cerberus?

[jason]

Astronomers have discovered a fourth moon orbiting the distant planet of Pluto using the Hubble Space Telescope. The latest discovery has been temporarily named P4, and joins the planet's other three satellites; Charon, Nix and Hydra.

The finding has been the result of the ongoing work supporting NASA's New Horizons mission, which is scheduled to fly through the Pluto system in 2015.
"I find it remarkable that Hubble's cameras enabled us to see such a tiny object so clearly from a distance of more than 3 billion miles (5 billion km)," stated Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., who led this observing program with Hubble.


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[Winter]

I think it's a little presumptuous of us to go around making up names for these celestial bodies. What if they've already got names. That'd be awkward!

 

[BukeyeJackson]

i think it's a little presumptuous of us to go around making up names for these celestial bodies. What if they've already got names. That'd be awkward!

ha ha touche!:d

 

[Bob Franks]

We can't be sexists!
Call it "Minnie!"

S&F

 

[Gary]

I say since the astro-community defrocked Pluto of it's true "planet" status, it's moons are of no consequence.

 

[Duncan1574]

I say since the astro-community defrocked Pluto of it's true "planet" status, it's moons are of no consequence.

Kinda like the Klingons around Uranus?

 

[Custer148]

Kinda like the Klingons around Uranus?

LMAO!!!!!!!

To quote Ashlar, --- I just spit my morning drink on my keyboard.