Comments on: Pluto's New Moons are Named Nix and Hydra

By: bob

bob — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:38:11 +0000

i lov pluto

By: plutogirl

plutogirl — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:57:31 +0000

I think that the new moons are really cool! =]
I can't wait to find out more about them.
By the way, even though Pluto is not one of the nine main planets,technically it's still a planet becasue it's classified as a dwarf PLANET!

By: Pluto’s new moons officially named Nix and Hydra « Steve’s Peeves & Affinities

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:38:34 +0000

[...] new moons officially named Nix and Hydra The International Astronomical Union today will confer official names on Pluto's [...]

By: hotbanana

hotbanana — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:45:59 +0000

Pluto is not a planet!!
Its orbit is totally wacko and it matches the characteristics of a comit better than those of a planet!
Face the facts and ditch pluto!!

By: geniusgirl_123

geniusgirl_123 — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:34:11 +0000

Well, first of all, Ginger and Team Josh, none of what you've described is relavant to wether a planet is a planet or not. It's the size that counts. And I'd never thought of classifying Mercury as a Dwarf Planet, not a planet. Nice theory, but I've researched planets and Dwarf Planets and Pluto is just within the Dwarf Planet size restrictions and Mercury is just within the planet size restrictions.

Secondly, Nix and Hydra are part of our Solar System, therefore deserve names. Even the moons of 2003 EL61 – another Dwarf Planet – will be named eventually. As soon as 2003 EL61 gets a name itself, of course.

As my summary, Evanescence rule!
(They're an alternative rock band, by the way.)

Oh, and Jovian, no one – and I mean NO ONE – is above the law.

You just got served by the white girl!
(A phrase me and my friends use.)

-geniusgirl_123
KissKiss!

By: Jovian

Jovian — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:23:15 +0000

I am above the law!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:57:51 +0000

Josh is not correct!

By: Blubber

Blubber — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:56:35 +0000

You, Josh, are correct!!

By: Team Josh

Team Josh — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:55:21 +0000

Then Mercury shouldn't be a planet, NOT Pluto. I love Pluto. STUPID scientists!! BE SMART! -_-

By: Ginger

Ginger — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:26:30 +0000

Why bother to name the satellites if they didn't think Pluto was a planet anyways? Answer:Pluto IS a planet…it has a stable orbit, it has an atmosphere, it has satellites (I know this would make mercury NOT a planet but it makes plute more of a planet than mercury).

By: aley

aley — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:13:37 +0000

how big are the new moons