Posted on 02/24/2013 11:02:41 AM PST by EveningStar
'Vulcan' could be the name of Pluto's recently discovered moons. The name, which Star Trek fans will know as Spock's home planet, is currently leading an online poll which could decide one of the two 20-30km moons discovered by the Hubble telescope between 2011 and 2012.
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I picked Orpheus but my phone won’t show the results. I like that he went to Hell and back.
Dagnubit. I guess if I want to see green people I gotta take a cruise.
Aren’t the moons of planets in the solar system—besides Earth—usually given Greek names? Instead of Vulcan, call it Hephaestus.
Even moons have named moons. Astronomers even had to leave the Greeks and Romans behind and pillage Norse mythology for names. It's funny they didn't get around to Vulcan.
I'd save "Vulcan" for some place very hot as it comes from the blacksmith to the gods, the god of fire and volcanoes.
Or alternatively -- I'd use it for the undiscovered planet on the other side of the sun that has the exact orbital pattern of earth.
Vulcan was a warm-hot planet
Maybe Pluto can be Vulcan’s moon.
Had to go with Persephone, Pluto’s wife. Interestingly, according to the standard convention, I believe that Charon probably should’ve been name Persephone (or some variation), but the discoverer chose the ferryman because he was actually naming it after his own wife (who was Charlene, or something like that, it’s been a while since I read this.)
whoever these supposed sci-fi fans are, they’re idiots
spock’s ‘vulcan’ was a very warm planet and was most likely a high gravity planet, as vulcans are supposed to be much stronger then humans. therefore, vulcan would have to be a large, warm planet... not a tiny frozen rock.
sci-fi poll fail
How about naming it Hoth? Or Mongo, or Curios? Still like the Idea of calling “Planet X” Xenia and her Moon Gabrilla.
At one point the name Vulcan was used for a hypothetical planet which some people believed was orbiting the sun closer in than Mercury. Even though now no one believes that that planet exists, it might be a good idea to save the name and not use it for a different category of object.
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