Posted on 02/12/2013 11:05:53 AM PST by BenLurkin
Astronomers announced a contest today to name the two itty-bitty moons of Pluto discovered over the past two years. Three Pluto moons already have names associated with Hades and the underworld: Charon, the ferryman of Hades; the half-human, half-fish spirit Nix; and the multi-headed monster Hydra.
The two unnamed moons need similarly shady references. Right now, they go by the bland titles of P4 and P5. They're no more than 15 to 20 miles across. Online voting will last two weeks. Twelve choices are available at plutorocks.com,
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Sunni & Shia
neunteufel means 9 devils. I submitted a write in, plus lefuetnuen (backwards).
Asmoday and Iblis
( To remind us of this pleasant story from The Onion:[excert of this http://www.theonion.com/articles/hijackers-surprised-to-find-selves-in-hell,1445/ )
“There was a tumultuous conflagration of burning steel and fuel at our gates, and from it stepped forth these hijackers, the blessed name of the Lord already turning to molten brass on their accursed lips,” said Iblis The Thrice-Damned, the cacodemon charged with conscripting new arrivals into the ranks of the forgotten. “Indeed, I do not know what they were expecting, but they certainly didn’t seem prepared to be skewered from eye socket to bunghole and then placed on a spit so that their flesh could be roasted by the searing gale of flatus which issues forth from the haunches of Asmoday.”
Jersey & Blue
Because of his snake ring.
Michelle and Barack
I would write in:
Rosa and DeLauro
(inside joke for people who believe that beauty is skin deep but ugliness goes right to the soul)
I was thinking they would be better used if they find more moons around Uranus.
How about we go to Babylonian Mythology, Dagan and Humbaba?
Since these are levels of Pluto (the underworld), I suggest we name them after the circles of Hell in Dante’s Inferno. The two that work the best would be Avaritia and Ira — Greed and Wrath to the non-Latinists among us.
Heckle and Jeckle.
Excellent!
Since these are levels of Pluto (the underworld), I suggest we name them after the circles of Hell in Dante’s Inferno. The two that work the best would be Avaritia and Ira — Greed and Wrath to the non-Latinists among us.
You sir are obviously a man of refinement.
Isn’t neunteufel cheese? ;’)
We think alike.
Most of the names in the thread have already been assigned to other bodies.
But I don’t think we need to look farther than names of a couple of Star Trek villains.
Or name them Kirk and Spock.
Or we could go with other contexts, and forget about Hades.
Pixie and Dixie.
Frick and Frack.
Beanie and Cecil.
Hank and Frank (after the horses in that old joke).
Homer and Jethro.
Flatt and Scruggs...
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