The voting is over and the results are in - internet voters have chosen Vulcan and Cerberus as the names for P4 & P5. Of course, the actual choice is up to the knuckleheads at the IAU, so we'll see...
A final decision is expected within a couple of months.
It's happened again. Less than a year after scientists discovered Planet Pluto's 4th moon, they have discovered a 5th.
Read all about it at:
ScientificAmerican.com
There is a drive by Pluto supporters to have the U.S. Postal Service issue a postage stamp honoring the historic New Horizons mission to the planet Pluto, Sign the petition here.
Read more about it at
SkyAndTelescope.com
Sad news in from New Mexico - Patricia "Patsy" Edson Tombaugh, widow of Clyde Tombaugh - the man who discovered Planet Pluto - has died. She was 99.
Patsy was a strong and vocal advocate for the restoration of full planet status for Pluto.
Read more about it at MSNBC.COM.
The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted new evidence of complex organic molecules — the carbon-containing building blocks of life as we know it — on the frigid surface of Planet Pluto
read more about it at:
FOXNEWS.COM
Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have announced that they have discovered a new moon, only 10 to 20 miles in diameter, circling Pluto. Until it is officially named, the moonlet will be called P4.
Read more about it at:
NASA
Ned Potter, the science correspondent for ABC's World News Tonight, brings up still another example of why the IAU's (politically motivated) definition of the word "Planet" is flawed, unworkable and is being ignored by the scientists who actually work in the planetary field.
Proving its nickname - "The Fastest Spaceship Ever Launched" - is not hyperbole, New Horizons passed through Uranus' orbit earlier this month, 1.8 billion from Earth, and right on schedule for its arrival at the planet Pluto in a little more than 4 years.
Today is Planet Pluto Day! Folks in Seattle celebrated with a Protest to reinstate Pluto as a Planet.
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