Help Name Pluto’s Moons!

Posted by NG Kids in News Bites on February 13, 2013
Pluto and its moons shine in a 2006 Hubble image. Image courtesy NASA; ESA; H. Weaver (JHU/APL); A. Stern (SwRI); and the HST Pluto Companion Search Team.
Pluto and its moons shine in a 2006 Hubble image. Image courtesy NASA; ESA; H. Weaver (JHU/APL); A. Stern (SwRI); and the HST Pluto Companion Search Team.

Scientists have recently discovered two new moons orbiting the dwarf planet Pluto, bringing the total up to five. SETI scientists are asking people to send in their name ideas for the newly-discovered moons. The names must come from Greek or Roman mythology and have something to do with Pluto/Hades and the underworld. The three moons that already have names are called Charon, Hydra, and Nix.

Learn how to submit your ideas for names on National Geographic’s News Watch blog.

Why is Pluto called a dwarf planet? Play Pluto’s Secret and find out!

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Comments

  1. jazzy228
    February 16, 5:23 pm

    oml thats awsome

  2. anthony2115
    March 8, 9:33 am

    whooa! this is amazing two new moons

  3. crista2115
    March 8, 9:41 am

    i want that the name of the moon is perla

  4. maxmaximus
    March 11, 9:21 pm

    How about Gabriel?

  5. savetheoceans123
    April 2, 5:19 pm

    I would agree with Perla and also for my own idea,Nebula from the TV show Odd Parents.

  6. maddie03
    April 4, 8:38 pm

    that is so cool!!!! i think that it is a dwarf planet because it was the coolest planet on earth.Thats what i have on the top of my head what i was thinking.but it may not be right.

  7. reporter45
    April 18, 5:01 pm

    i like gabriel cause its my name

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