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The discoverers of Pluto's two tiniest moons are inviting the public to help select names for the new moons.
ENGADGET: Pluto moon names to be selected by public voting, we talk to astronomer Mark Showalter
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Daily returns around new moons were roughly double those around full moons.
ECONOMIST: How the sun and the moon move markets
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Since being demoted from planet to dwarf planet in 2006 we've actually discovered two new moons orbiting the icy sun satellite.
ENGADGET: Alt-week 7.28.12: social mathematics, Pluto's moons and humans-on-a-chip
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Mr. MAX MUTCHLER (Space Telescope Science Institute): About the middle of June, he gave it to me, and within a day, I discovered these two new moons.
NPR: NASA Sends Spacecraft to Pluto
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They found that, on average, daily returns were much higher around new moons than full moons, when investors are presumably sprouting fangs and howling rather than buying shares.
ECONOMIST: How the sun and the moon move markets
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In a flash of intuition, he had it: the new stars near Jupiter were actually moons, orbiting the planet as our moon orbits us.
NEWYORKER: Moon Man
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And new software, plus the ability to vary the projected sizes and brightnesses of planets and moons, makes it possible to simulate the sky from anywhere in the solar system: to see earthrise from Mars, for example, or to watch Jupiter's moons rise and set from a vantage point just above the gas giant's cloud-tops.
ECONOMIST: The joys of indoor star-gazing