Pluto

Following an online survey organized by the SETI institute in California, over 170,000 votes sided with William Shatner’s suggestion to name Pluto’s newly discovered moon “Vulcan” beating out 100,000 votes for “Cerberus” and getting almost 40% of the 450,000 votes. In Greek mythology, Vulcan is the God of lava...

Astonomers, using the Hubble Space Telescope, have identified a new moon orbiting Pluto, which they’d previously demoted from a planet, to a “dwarf” planet for reasons known only to themselves. The new moon, whose discovery was announced on Monday, has tentatively been named P4.  It’s size is estimated between...