In our story, at midnight the brothers delayed the deal for eight more moons.
Until now, these small moons have been referred to as, simply, "P4" and "P5".
ENGADGET: Pluto moon names to be selected by public voting, we talk to astronomer Mark Showalter
By tradition, the moons of Pluto have names associated with Hades and the underworld.
ENGADGET: Pluto moon names to be selected by public voting, we talk to astronomer Mark Showalter
Galilei discovered the moons of Jupiter in, mebbe 1608, 1610, something like that.
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In some of the most breathtaking pictures from Cassini we can actually watch the moons at work.
Belinda and Umbriel, two of Uranus's larger moons, take their names from a poem by Alexander Pope.
For the moons and surface features of non-minor planets, though, the traditional themes are more rigorously enforced.
She held my hand as she told me, her eyes sad half-moons, her lips still full and provocative.
By contrast, the data on which Newton and Einstein built their theories were from stars, planets and moons.
But the most significant influence is wielded by the moons that orbit thousands of km outside the rings.
Many moons ago I wrote an article entitled simply Are You Disruptive?
The discoverers of Pluto's two tiniest moons are inviting the public to help select names for the new moons.
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The moons are only 20 to 30 km (15 to 20 miles) across.
ENGADGET: Pluto moon names to be selected by public voting, we talk to astronomer Mark Showalter
The first observations were made of Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons.
These under-ice environments may also provide fascinating insights into the potential habitability of some moons in the Solar System.
This year, for example, the names Caliban and Sycorax were proposed for the 16th and 17th moons of Uranus.
Astrobiologists think such moons are promising places to go look for extra-terrestrial microorganisms.
The other two moons, though, yielded the jewels in Galileo's crown of discoveries.
Robotic explorers have found evidence of water, a key ingredient for life on Mars and on the moons of Jupiter.
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The pictures transmitted by the Voyagers showed the two giant planets, and their assorted moons and rings, in unprecedented detail.
Many moons worth of work by legions of lawyers would be needed to make sense of and value this company.
Like Pluto's three other moons, Charon, Nix and Hydra, they need to be assigned names derived from Greek or Roman mythology.
ENGADGET: Pluto moon names to be selected by public voting, we talk to astronomer Mark Showalter
One of the key discoveries has been the role Saturn's moons play in maintaining the order and structure of the rings.
Saturn has a network of over 60 moons and as they orbit the planet their gravitational influence sweeps through the rings.
Galileo, which has spent the past two years studying Jupiter and its four largest moons, will now concentrate on Europa's icy crust.
Daily returns around new moons were roughly double those around full moons.
Since being demoted from planet to dwarf planet in 2006 we've actually discovered two new moons orbiting the icy sun satellite.
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These days, I prefer to shape my manti into half moons it's not the most traditional shape, but I prefer the look of them.
The probe was built to land on the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos, and scoop up rock to bring back to Earth.
Some researchers have already started thinking about how they might use instruments like the planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope to detect alien moons.
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