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Your Help Wanted to Name Two of Pluto's Moons
by Miriam Kramer, SPACE.com Staff Writer
Date: 11 February 2013 Time: 05:18 PM ET
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five moons orbiting the distant, icy dwarf planet Pluto. The green circle
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CREDIT: NASA, _ESA_
(http://www.livescience.com/27023-vote-name-pluto-moons-seti.html#) , and M.
Showalter (SETI Institute)
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If you've ever wanted to leave your mark on the heavens, here's your
chance.
Astronomers are asking for _help_
(http://www.livescience.com/27023-vote-name-pluto-moons-seti.html#) in naming
two newly discovered moons of _Pluto_
(http://www.space.com/43-pluto-the-ninth-planet-that-was-a-dwarf.html) ,
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_
(http://www.space.com/16535-plutos-moons.html) — 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.
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