Jay-qu Posted June 23, 2006 Report Posted June 23, 2006 A pair of small moons that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope discovered orbiting Pluto now have official names: Nix and Hydra. Photographed by Hubble in 2005, Nix and Hydra are roughly 5,000 times fainter than Pluto and are about two to three times farther from Pluto than its large moon, Charon, which was discovered in 1978. Credit: NASA, ESA, H. Weaver (JHU/APL), A. Stern (SwRI), and the HST Pluto Companion Search Team Quote
TheFaithfulStone Posted June 23, 2006 Report Posted June 23, 2006 I'd like to put the Nix on one of those names. Oh wait... TFS Quote
ronthepon Posted June 25, 2006 Report Posted June 25, 2006 Hey! Howcome earth has only one moon?! Everybody has more than that! (forget those who don't at all.) Quote
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