As some of you may already be aware, astronomers working with the Hubble Space Telescope over the past two years have discovered two new moons of the planet Pluto. (Yes, I said planet!) So far, the best they can do for names for these two is P4 and P5, which are not really catchy names for astronomical objects residing in our own solar system.

And so they have now opened it up to the general public to suggest names and vote on them. For reference, the existing moons are Charon (the largest moo...
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