[meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto
Hi All, Pluto has a 4th moon! Here's a link to the CBAT: http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/cbet/cbet002769.txt Below is the NASA News release: July 20, 2011 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington trent.j.perro...@nasa.gov 202-358-0321 Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore vill...@stsci.edu 410-338-4514 Karen Randall SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif. krand...@seti.org 650-960-4537 RELEASE: 11-234 NASA'S HUBBLE DISCOVERS ANOTHER MOON AROUND PLUTO WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite, temporarily designated P4, was uncovered in a Hubble survey searching for rings around the dwarf planet. The new moon is the smallest discovered around Pluto. It has an estimated diameter of 8 to 21 miles (13 to 34 km). By comparison, Charon, Pluto's largest moon, is 648 miles (1,043 km) across, and the other moons, Nix and Hydra, are in the range of 20 to 70 miles in diameter (32 to 113 km). 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), said Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., who led this observing program with Hubble. The finding is a result of ongoing work to support NASA's New Horizons mission, scheduled to fly through the Pluto system in 2015. The mission is designed to provide new insights about worlds at the edge of our solar system. Hubble's mapping of Pluto's surface and discovery of its satellites have been invaluable to planning for New Horizons' close encounter. This is a fantastic discovery, said New Horizons' principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. Now that we know there's another moon in the Pluto system, we can plan close-up observations of it during our flyby. The new moon is located between the orbits of Nix and Hydra, which Hubble discovered in 2005. Charon was discovered in 1978 at the U.S. Naval Observatory and first resolved using Hubble in 1990 as a separate body from Pluto. The dwarf planet's entire moon system is believed to have formed by a collision between Pluto and another planet-sized body early in the history of the solar system. The smashup flung material that coalesced into the family of satellites observed around Pluto. Lunar rocks returned to Earth from the Apollo missions led to the theory that our moon was the result of a similar collision between Earth and a Mars-sized body 4.4 billion years ago. Scientists believe material blasted off Pluto's moons by micrometeoroid impacts may form rings around the dwarf planet, but the Hubble photographs have not detected any so far. This surprising observation is a powerful reminder of Hubble's ability as a general purpose astronomical observatory to make astounding, unintended discoveries, said Jon Morse, astrophysics division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington. P4 was first seen in a photo taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 on June 28. It was confirmed in subsequent Hubble pictures taken on July 3 and July 18. The moon was not seen in earlier Hubble images because the exposure times were shorter. There is a chance it appeared as a very faint smudge in 2006 images, but was overlooked because it was obscured. Hubble is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc. in Washington. For images and more information about Hubble, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/hubble and http://hubblesite.org/news/2011/23 -end- __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto
That's just weird. Pluto is sounding more like a cloud of fragments than anything else. I wonder how long its been like that. Cheers, Marc Fries On 7/20/11 11:35 AM, Matson, Robert D. wrote: Hi All, Pluto has a 4th moon! Here's a link to the CBAT: http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/cbet/cbet002769.txt Below is the NASA News release: July 20, 2011 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington trent.j.perro...@nasa.gov 202-358-0321 Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore vill...@stsci.edu 410-338-4514 Karen Randall SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif. krand...@seti.org 650-960-4537 RELEASE: 11-234 NASA'S HUBBLE DISCOVERS ANOTHER MOON AROUND PLUTO WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite, temporarily designated P4, was uncovered in a Hubble survey searching for rings around the dwarf planet. The new moon is the smallest discovered around Pluto. It has an estimated diameter of 8 to 21 miles (13 to 34 km). By comparison, Charon, Pluto's largest moon, is 648 miles (1,043 km) across, and the other moons, Nix and Hydra, are in the range of 20 to 70 miles in diameter (32 to 113 km). 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), said Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., who led this observing program with Hubble. The finding is a result of ongoing work to support NASA's New Horizons mission, scheduled to fly through the Pluto system in 2015. The mission is designed to provide new insights about worlds at the edge of our solar system. Hubble's mapping of Pluto's surface and discovery of its satellites have been invaluable to planning for New Horizons' close encounter. This is a fantastic discovery, said New Horizons' principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. Now that we know there's another moon in the Pluto system, we can plan close-up observations of it during our flyby. The new moon is located between the orbits of Nix and Hydra, which Hubble discovered in 2005. Charon was discovered in 1978 at the U.S. Naval Observatory and first resolved using Hubble in 1990 as a separate body from Pluto. The dwarf planet's entire moon system is believed to have formed by a collision between Pluto and another planet-sized body early in the history of the solar system. The smashup flung material that coalesced into the family of satellites observed around Pluto. Lunar rocks returned to Earth from the Apollo missions led to the theory that our moon was the result of a similar collision between Earth and a Mars-sized body 4.4 billion years ago. Scientists believe material blasted off Pluto's moons by micrometeoroid impacts may form rings around the dwarf planet, but the Hubble photographs have not detected any so far. This surprising observation is a powerful reminder of Hubble's ability as a general purpose astronomical observatory to make astounding, unintended discoveries, said Jon Morse, astrophysics division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington. P4 was first seen in a photo taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 on June 28. It was confirmed in subsequent Hubble pictures taken on July 3 and July 18. The moon was not seen in earlier Hubble images because the exposure times were shorter. There is a chance it appeared as a very faint smudge in 2006 images, but was overlooked because it was obscured. Hubble is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc. in Washington. For images and more information about Hubble, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/hubble and http://hubblesite.org/news/2011/23 -end- __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto
Fascinating news !!! Thank you for sharing this, Robert. It's hard to wait another four years until New Horizons reveals more secrets from the icy spheres around Pluto. But that's 'space' Best wishes Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Matson, Robert D. robert.d.mat...@saic.com Gesendet: 20.07.2011 20:35:17 An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto Hi All, Pluto has a 4th moon! Here's a link to the CBAT: http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/cbet/cbet002769.txt Below is the NASA News release: July 20, 2011 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington trent.j.perro...@nasa.gov 202-358-0321 Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore vill...@stsci.edu 410-338-4514 Karen Randall SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif. krand...@seti.org 650-960-4537 RELEASE: 11-234 NASA'S HUBBLE DISCOVERS ANOTHER MOON AROUND PLUTO WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite, temporarily designated P4, was uncovered in a Hubble survey searching for rings around the dwarf planet. The new moon is the smallest discovered around Pluto. It has an estimated diameter of 8 to 21 miles (13 to 34 km). By comparison, Charon, Pluto's largest moon, is 648 miles (1,043 km) across, and the other moons, Nix and Hydra, are in the range of 20 to 70 miles in diameter (32 to 113 km). 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), said Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., who led this observing program with Hubble. The finding is a result of ongoing work to support NASA's New Horizons mission, scheduled to fly through the Pluto system in 2015. The mission is designed to provide new insights about worlds at the edge of our solar system. Hubble's mapping of Pluto's surface and discovery of its satellites have been invaluable to planning for New Horizons' close encounter. This is a fantastic discovery, said New Horizons' principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. Now that we know there's another moon in the Pluto system, we can plan close-up observations of it during our flyby. The new moon is located between the orbits of Nix and Hydra, which Hubble discovered in 2005. Charon was discovered in 1978 at the U.S. Naval Observatory and first resolved using Hubble in 1990 as a separate body from Pluto. The dwarf planet's entire moon system is believed to have formed by a collision between Pluto and another planet-sized body early in the history of the solar system. The smashup flung material that coalesced into the family of satellites observed around Pluto. Lunar rocks returned to Earth from the Apollo missions led to the theory that our moon was the result of a similar collision between Earth and a Mars-sized body 4.4 billion years ago. Scientists believe material blasted off Pluto's moons by micrometeoroid impacts may form rings around the dwarf planet, but the Hubble photographs have not detected any so far. This surprising observation is a powerful reminder of Hubble's ability as a general purpose astronomical observatory to make astounding, unintended discoveries, said Jon Morse, astrophysics division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington. P4 was first seen in a photo taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 on June 28. It was confirmed in subsequent Hubble pictures taken on July 3 and July 18. The moon was not seen in earlier Hubble images because the exposure times were shorter. There is a chance it appeared as a very faint smudge in 2006 images, but was overlooked because it was obscured. Hubble is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc. in Washington. For images and more information about Hubble, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/hubble and http://hubblesite.org/news/2011/23 -end- __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto
How should S/2011 (134340) 1 be called? Any suggestions? How about KALI ? It's not Greek, but ... Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: karmaka karm...@email.de Gesendet: 20.07.2011 22:11:26 An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto Fascinating news !!! Thank you for sharing this, Robert. It's hard to wait another four years until New Horizons reveals more secrets from the icy spheres around Pluto. But that's 'space' Best wishes Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Matson, Robert D. robert.d.mat...@saic.com Gesendet: 20.07.2011 20:35:17 An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto Hi All, Pluto has a 4th moon! Here's a link to the CBAT: http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/cbet/cbet002769.txt Below is the NASA News release: July 20, 2011 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington trent.j.perro...@nasa.gov 202-358-0321 Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore vill...@stsci.edu 410-338-4514 Karen Randall SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif. krand...@seti.org 650-960-4537 RELEASE: 11-234 NASA'S HUBBLE DISCOVERS ANOTHER MOON AROUND PLUTO WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite, temporarily designated P4, was uncovered in a Hubble survey searching for rings around the dwarf planet. The new moon is the smallest discovered around Pluto. It has an estimated diameter of 8 to 21 miles (13 to 34 km). By comparison, Charon, Pluto's largest moon, is 648 miles (1,043 km) across, and the other moons, Nix and Hydra, are in the range of 20 to 70 miles in diameter (32 to 113 km). 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), said Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., who led this observing program with Hubble. The finding is a result of ongoing work to support NASA's New Horizons mission, scheduled to fly through the Pluto system in 2015. The mission is designed to provide new insights about worlds at the edge of our solar system. Hubble's mapping of Pluto's surface and discovery of its satellites have been invaluable to planning for New Horizons' close encounter. This is a fantastic discovery, said New Horizons' principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. Now that we know there's another moon in the Pluto system, we can plan close-up observations of it during our flyby. The new moon is located between the orbits of Nix and Hydra, which Hubble discovered in 2005. Charon was discovered in 1978 at the U.S. Naval Observatory and first resolved using Hubble in 1990 as a separate body from Pluto. The dwarf planet's entire moon system is believed to have formed by a collision between Pluto and another planet-sized body early in the history of the solar system. The smashup flung material that coalesced into the family of satellites observed around Pluto. Lunar rocks returned to Earth from the Apollo missions led to the theory that our moon was the result of a similar collision between Earth and a Mars-sized body 4.4 billion years ago. Scientists believe material blasted off Pluto's moons by micrometeoroid impacts may form rings around the dwarf planet, but the Hubble photographs have not detected any so far. This surprising observation is a powerful reminder of Hubble's ability as a general purpose astronomical observatory to make astounding, unintended discoveries, said Jon Morse, astrophysics division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington. P4 was first seen in a photo taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 on June 28. It was confirmed in subsequent Hubble pictures taken on July 3 and July 18. The moon was not seen in earlier Hubble images because the exposure times were shorter. There is a chance it appeared as a very faint smudge in 2006 images, but was overlooked because it was obscured. Hubble is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc. in Washington. For images and more information about Hubble, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/hubble and http://hubblesite.org/news/2011/23 -end- __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http
Re: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto
If it has to be Greek, how about ACHLYS the personification of Eternal Night, a daughter of NYX ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achlys Best Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: karmaka karm...@email.de Gesendet: 20.07.2011 22:29:29 An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto How should S/2011 (134340) 1 be called? Any suggestions? How about KALI ? It's not Greek, but ... Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: karmaka karm...@email.de Gesendet: 20.07.2011 22:11:26 An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto Fascinating news !!! Thank you for sharing this, Robert. It's hard to wait another four years until New Horizons reveals more secrets from the icy spheres around Pluto. But that's 'space' Best wishes Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Matson, Robert D. robert.d.mat...@saic.com Gesendet: 20.07.2011 20:35:17 An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto Hi All, Pluto has a 4th moon! Here's a link to the CBAT: http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/cbet/cbet002769.txt Below is the NASA News release: July 20, 2011 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington trent.j.perro...@nasa.gov 202-358-0321 Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore vill...@stsci.edu 410-338-4514 Karen Randall SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif. krand...@seti.org 650-960-4537 RELEASE: 11-234 NASA'S HUBBLE DISCOVERS ANOTHER MOON AROUND PLUTO WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite, temporarily designated P4, was uncovered in a Hubble survey searching for rings around the dwarf planet. The new moon is the smallest discovered around Pluto. It has an estimated diameter of 8 to 21 miles (13 to 34 km). By comparison, Charon, Pluto's largest moon, is 648 miles (1,043 km) across, and the other moons, Nix and Hydra, are in the range of 20 to 70 miles in diameter (32 to 113 km). 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), said Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., who led this observing program with Hubble. The finding is a result of ongoing work to support NASA's New Horizons mission, scheduled to fly through the Pluto system in 2015. The mission is designed to provide new insights about worlds at the edge of our solar system. Hubble's mapping of Pluto's surface and discovery of its satellites have been invaluable to planning for New Horizons' close encounter. This is a fantastic discovery, said New Horizons' principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. Now that we know there's another moon in the Pluto system, we can plan close-up observations of it during our flyby. The new moon is located between the orbits of Nix and Hydra, which Hubble discovered in 2005. Charon was discovered in 1978 at the U.S. Naval Observatory and first resolved using Hubble in 1990 as a separate body from Pluto. The dwarf planet's entire moon system is believed to have formed by a collision between Pluto and another planet-sized body early in the history of the solar system. The smashup flung material that coalesced into the family of satellites observed around Pluto. Lunar rocks returned to Earth from the Apollo missions led to the theory that our moon was the result of a similar collision between Earth and a Mars-sized body 4.4 billion years ago. Scientists believe material blasted off Pluto's moons by micrometeoroid impacts may form rings around the dwarf planet, but the Hubble photographs have not detected any so far. This surprising observation is a powerful reminder of Hubble's ability as a general purpose astronomical observatory to make astounding, unintended discoveries, said Jon Morse, astrophysics division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington. P4 was first seen in a photo taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 on June 28. It was confirmed in subsequent Hubble pictures taken on July 3 and July 18. The moon was not seen in earlier Hubble images because the exposure times were shorter. There is a chance it appeared as a very faint smudge in 2006 images, but was overlooked because it was obscured. Hubble is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc. in Washington. For images and more information about Hubble, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/hubble and http
Re: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto
Actually, one of the discoverers (Dr. Doug Hamilton, UMaryland) has a preference for Cerberus... Fits in with the mythology... and as the discoverers, Showalter and Hamilton get to name it... Clear Skies! Elizabeth On 7/20/2011 4:38 PM, karmaka wrote: If it has to be Greek, how about ACHLYS the personification of Eternal Night, a daughter of NYX ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achlys Best Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: karmakakarm...@email.de Gesendet: 20.07.2011 22:29:29 An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto How should S/2011 (134340) 1 be called? Any suggestions? How about KALI ? It's not Greek, but ... Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: karmakakarm...@email.de Gesendet: 20.07.2011 22:11:26 An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto Fascinating news !!! Thank you for sharing this, Robert. It's hard to wait another four years until New Horizons reveals more secrets from the icy spheres around Pluto. But that's 'space' Best wishes Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Matson, Robert D.robert.d.mat...@saic.com Gesendet: 20.07.2011 20:35:17 An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto Hi All, Pluto has a 4th moon! Here's a link to the CBAT: http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/cbet/cbet002769.txt Below is the NASA News release: July 20, 2011 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington trent.j.perro...@nasa.gov 202-358-0321 Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore vill...@stsci.edu 410-338-4514 Karen Randall SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif. krand...@seti.org 650-960-4537 RELEASE: 11-234 NASA'S HUBBLE DISCOVERS ANOTHER MOON AROUND PLUTO WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite, temporarily designated P4, was uncovered in a Hubble survey searching for rings around the dwarf planet. The new moon is the smallest discovered around Pluto. It has an estimated diameter of 8 to 21 miles (13 to 34 km). By comparison, Charon, Pluto's largest moon, is 648 miles (1,043 km) across, and the other moons, Nix and Hydra, are in the range of 20 to 70 miles in diameter (32 to 113 km). 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), said Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., who led this observing program with Hubble. The finding is a result of ongoing work to support NASA's New Horizons mission, scheduled to fly through the Pluto system in 2015. The mission is designed to provide new insights about worlds at the edge of our solar system. Hubble's mapping of Pluto's surface and discovery of its satellites have been invaluable to planning for New Horizons' close encounter. This is a fantastic discovery, said New Horizons' principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. Now that we know there's another moon in the Pluto system, we can plan close-up observations of it during our flyby. The new moon is located between the orbits of Nix and Hydra, which Hubble discovered in 2005. Charon was discovered in 1978 at the U.S. Naval Observatory and first resolved using Hubble in 1990 as a separate body from Pluto. The dwarf planet's entire moon system is believed to have formed by a collision between Pluto and another planet-sized body early in the history of the solar system. The smashup flung material that coalesced into the family of satellites observed around Pluto. Lunar rocks returned to Earth from the Apollo missions led to the theory that our moon was the result of a similar collision between Earth and a Mars-sized body 4.4 billion years ago. Scientists believe material blasted off Pluto's moons by micrometeoroid impacts may form rings around the dwarf planet, but the Hubble photographs have not detected any so far. This surprising observation is a powerful reminder of Hubble's ability as a general purpose astronomical observatory to make astounding, unintended discoveries, said Jon Morse, astrophysics division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington. P4 was first seen in a photo taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 on June 28. It was confirmed in subsequent Hubble pictures taken on July 3 and July 18. The moon was not seen in earlier Hubble images because the exposure times were shorter. There is a chance it appeared as a very faint smudge in 2006 images, but was overlooked because it was obscured. Hubble is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI
Re: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto
Hi Elizabeth: The big problem with cerberus is that there is already 1865 Cerberus, an Apollo asteroid. IAU Nomenclatur Committee tries to avoid duplication like that though there are several existing examples. Larry Actually, one of the discoverers (Dr. Doug Hamilton, UMaryland) has a preference for Cerberus... Fits in with the mythology... and as the discoverers, Showalter and Hamilton get to name it... Clear Skies! Elizabeth On 7/20/2011 4:38 PM, karmaka wrote: If it has to be Greek, how about ACHLYS the personification of Eternal Night, a daughter of NYX ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achlys Best Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: karmakakarm...@email.de Gesendet: 20.07.2011 22:29:29 An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto How should S/2011 (134340) 1 be called? Any suggestions? How about KALI ? It's not Greek, but ... Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: karmakakarm...@email.de Gesendet: 20.07.2011 22:11:26 An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto Fascinating news !!! Thank you for sharing this, Robert. It's hard to wait another four years until New Horizons reveals more secrets from the icy spheres around Pluto. But that's 'space' Best wishes Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Matson, Robert D.robert.d.mat...@saic.com Gesendet: 20.07.2011 20:35:17 An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto Hi All, Pluto has a 4th moon! Here's a link to the CBAT: http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/cbet/cbet002769.txt Below is the NASA News release: July 20, 2011 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington trent.j.perro...@nasa.gov 202-358-0321 Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore vill...@stsci.edu 410-338-4514 Karen Randall SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif. krand...@seti.org 650-960-4537 RELEASE: 11-234 NASA'S HUBBLE DISCOVERS ANOTHER MOON AROUND PLUTO WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite, temporarily designated P4, was uncovered in a Hubble survey searching for rings around the dwarf planet. The new moon is the smallest discovered around Pluto. It has an estimated diameter of 8 to 21 miles (13 to 34 km). By comparison, Charon, Pluto's largest moon, is 648 miles (1,043 km) across, and the other moons, Nix and Hydra, are in the range of 20 to 70 miles in diameter (32 to 113 km). 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), said Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., who led this observing program with Hubble. The finding is a result of ongoing work to support NASA's New Horizons mission, scheduled to fly through the Pluto system in 2015. The mission is designed to provide new insights about worlds at the edge of our solar system. Hubble's mapping of Pluto's surface and discovery of its satellites have been invaluable to planning for New Horizons' close encounter. This is a fantastic discovery, said New Horizons' principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. Now that we know there's another moon in the Pluto system, we can plan close-up observations of it during our flyby. The new moon is located between the orbits of Nix and Hydra, which Hubble discovered in 2005. Charon was discovered in 1978 at the U.S. Naval Observatory and first resolved using Hubble in 1990 as a separate body from Pluto. The dwarf planet's entire moon system is believed to have formed by a collision between Pluto and another planet-sized body early in the history of the solar system. The smashup flung material that coalesced into the family of satellites observed around Pluto. Lunar rocks returned to Earth from the Apollo missions led to the theory that our moon was the result of a similar collision between Earth and a Mars-sized body 4.4 billion years ago. Scientists believe material blasted off Pluto's moons by micrometeoroid impacts may form rings around the dwarf planet, but the Hubble photographs have not detected any so far. This surprising observation is a powerful reminder of Hubble's ability as a general purpose astronomical observatory to make astounding, unintended discoveries, said Jon Morse, astrophysics division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington. P4 was first seen in a photo taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 on June 28. It was confirmed in subsequent Hubble pictures taken on July 3 and July 18. The moon was not seen in earlier Hubble images because the exposure times were shorter
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I really don't care... I was just passing along what one of the discoverers had expressed as his preference... Clear Skies! Elizabeth On 7/20/2011 4:56 PM, lebof...@lpl.arizona.edu wrote: Hi Elizabeth: The big problem with cerberus is that there is already 1865 Cerberus, an Apollo asteroid. IAU Nomenclatur Committee tries to avoid duplication like that though there are several existing examples. Larry Actually, one of the discoverers (Dr. Doug Hamilton, UMaryland) has a preference for Cerberus... Fits in with the mythology... and as the discoverers, Showalter and Hamilton get to name it... Clear Skies! Elizabeth __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
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ACHLYS has not been used for any asteroid or other object as far as I know. http://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Akhlys.html Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: lebof...@lpl.arizona.edu Gesendet: 20.07.2011 22:56:04 An: warne...@astro.umd.edu Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto Hi Elizabeth: The big problem with cerberus is that there is already 1865 Cerberus, an Apollo asteroid. IAU Nomenclatur Committee tries to avoid duplication like that though there are several existing examples. Larry Actually, one of the discoverers (Dr. Doug Hamilton, UMaryland) has a preference for Cerberus... Fits in with the mythology... and as the discoverers, Showalter and Hamilton get to name it... Clear Skies! Elizabeth On 7/20/2011 4:38 PM, karmaka wrote: If it has to be Greek, how about ACHLYS the personification of Eternal Night, a daughter of NYX ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achlys Best Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: karmakakarm...@email.de Gesendet: 20.07.2011 22:29:29 An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto How should S/2011 (134340) 1 be called? Any suggestions? How about KALI ? It's not Greek, but ... Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: karmakakarm...@email.de Gesendet: 20.07.2011 22:11:26 An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto Fascinating news !!! Thank you for sharing this, Robert. It's hard to wait another four years until New Horizons reveals more secrets from the icy spheres around Pluto. But that's 'space' Best wishes Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Matson, Robert D.robert.d.mat...@saic.com Gesendet: 20.07.2011 20:35:17 An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto Hi All, Pluto has a 4th moon! Here's a link to the CBAT: http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/cbet/cbet002769.txt Below is the NASA News release: July 20, 2011 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington trent.j.perro...@nasa.gov 202-358-0321 Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore vill...@stsci.edu 410-338-4514 Karen Randall SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif. krand...@seti.org 650-960-4537 RELEASE: 11-234 NASA'S HUBBLE DISCOVERS ANOTHER MOON AROUND PLUTO WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite, temporarily designated P4, was uncovered in a Hubble survey searching for rings around the dwarf planet. The new moon is the smallest discovered around Pluto. It has an estimated diameter of 8 to 21 miles (13 to 34 km). By comparison, Charon, Pluto's largest moon, is 648 miles (1,043 km) across, and the other moons, Nix and Hydra, are in the range of 20 to 70 miles in diameter (32 to 113 km). 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), said Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., who led this observing program with Hubble. The finding is a result of ongoing work to support NASA's New Horizons mission, scheduled to fly through the Pluto system in 2015. The mission is designed to provide new insights about worlds at the edge of our solar system. Hubble's mapping of Pluto's surface and discovery of its satellites have been invaluable to planning for New Horizons' close encounter. This is a fantastic discovery, said New Horizons' principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. Now that we know there's another moon in the Pluto system, we can plan close-up observations of it during our flyby. The new moon is located between the orbits of Nix and Hydra, which Hubble discovered in 2005. Charon was discovered in 1978 at the U.S. Naval Observatory and first resolved using Hubble in 1990 as a separate body from Pluto. The dwarf planet's entire moon system is believed to have formed by a collision between Pluto and another planet-sized body early in the history of the solar system. The smashup flung material that coalesced into the family of satellites observed around Pluto. Lunar rocks returned to Earth from the Apollo missions led to the theory that our moon was the result of a similar collision between Earth and a Mars-sized body 4.4 billion years ago. Scientists believe material blasted off Pluto's moons by micrometeoroid impacts may form rings around the dwarf planet, but the Hubble photographs have not detected any so far. This surprising observation is a powerful reminder of Hubble's ability as a general purpose astronomical observatory to make astounding, unintended discoveries, said
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EREBUS (Darkness and Shadow), the brother of Nyx (already a satellite of Pluto), and a name NOT yet taken for a minor planet. Erebus and Nyx had a daughter -- Nemesis (a ruined name), as is Cerebus (minor planet). The pair gave birth to Aether (atmosphere) and Hemera (day). Later, on her own, Nyx gives birth to Momus (blame), Moros (doom), Thanatos (death), Hypnos (sleep), Charon (the ferryman of Hades), the Oneiroi (dreams), the Hesperides, the Keres and Moirae (Fates), Nemesis (retribution), Apate (deception), Philotes (friendship), Geras (age), and Eris (strife). The Plutonian satellite Nix is spelled that way, as a cheat to use the name even though there is a minor planet 3908 Nyx. You could change the spelling of 1865 Cerberus to Cerberis and have the three-headed dog (suitable for a small yappy moon). Sterling K. Webb - - Original Message - From: karmaka karm...@email.de To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto How should S/2011 (134340) 1 be called? Any suggestions? How about KALI ? It's not Greek, but ... Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: karmaka karm...@email.de Gesendet: 20.07.2011 22:11:26 An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto Fascinating news !!! Thank you for sharing this, Robert. It's hard to wait another four years until New Horizons reveals more secrets from the icy spheres around Pluto. But that's 'space' Best wishes Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Matson, Robert D. robert.d.mat...@saic.com Gesendet: 20.07.2011 20:35:17 An: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto Hi All, Pluto has a 4th moon! Here's a link to the CBAT: http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/cbet/cbet002769.txt Below is the NASA News release: July 20, 2011 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington trent.j.perro...@nasa.gov 202-358-0321 Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore vill...@stsci.edu 410-338-4514 Karen Randall SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif. krand...@seti.org 650-960-4537 RELEASE: 11-234 NASA'S HUBBLE DISCOVERS ANOTHER MOON AROUND PLUTO WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite, temporarily designated P4, was uncovered in a Hubble survey searching for rings around the dwarf planet. The new moon is the smallest discovered around Pluto. It has an estimated diameter of 8 to 21 miles (13 to 34 km). By comparison, Charon, Pluto's largest moon, is 648 miles (1,043 km) across, and the other moons, Nix and Hydra, are in the range of 20 to 70 miles in diameter (32 to 113 km). 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), said Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., who led this observing program with Hubble. The finding is a result of ongoing work to support NASA's New Horizons mission, scheduled to fly through the Pluto system in 2015. The mission is designed to provide new insights about worlds at the edge of our solar system. Hubble's mapping of Pluto's surface and discovery of its satellites have been invaluable to planning for New Horizons' close encounter. This is a fantastic discovery, said New Horizons' principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. Now that we know there's another moon in the Pluto system, we can plan close-up observations of it during our flyby. The new moon is located between the orbits of Nix and Hydra, which Hubble discovered in 2005. Charon was discovered in 1978 at the U.S. Naval Observatory and first resolved using Hubble in 1990 as a separate body from Pluto. The dwarf planet's entire moon system is believed to have formed by a collision between Pluto and another planet-sized body early in the history of the solar system. The smashup flung material that coalesced into the family of satellites observed around Pluto. Lunar rocks returned to Earth from the Apollo missions led to the theory that our moon was the result of a similar collision between Earth and a Mars-sized body 4.4 billion years ago. Scientists believe material blasted off Pluto's moons by micrometeoroid impacts may form rings around the dwarf planet, but the Hubble photographs have not detected any so far. This surprising observation is a powerful reminder of Hubble's ability as a general purpose astronomical observatory to make astounding, unintended discoveries, said Jon Morse, astrophysics division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington. P4 was first seen in a photo taken with Hubble's Wide Field
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How should S/2011 (134340) 1 be called? Any suggestions... I took a look at Wiki and saw names like Fifi, Dinah and even Goofy. Might work. Carl2 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
