Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Pleased to Meet You, P4

Over the last few weeks the Hubble Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting Pluto!

Take that, Pluto haters!

This image isn't going to be very good on this page, so click it to enlarge it, mmm-kay?



Here is the space.com story I just read that told me about this awesomeness.

Hubble was working in support of the New Horizons mission to the Kuiper Belt. There is some hope that when the probe flies past Pluto it will find rings, and that's what Hubble was looking for. Instead? It found a new moon.

The moon will be known as P4 until it gets an official name. The other three moons are called Charon, Nix, and Hydra. I vote we officially dub P4 as, "Screw You, Pluto Haters!"

Think that will fly?

No comments:

Post a Comment