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		<title>Don&#8217;t You DARE Try to Name Pluto&#8217;s Moons After Some Internet Nonsense</title>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_79017" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 252px"><a href="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/pluto_and_its_satellites_2005_without_labels.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-79017  " alt="Hi there! (NASA Photo: H. Weaver (JHU/APL), A. Stern (SwRI), and the HST Pluto Companion Search Team, Via WikiMedia)" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/pluto_and_its_satellites_2005_without_labels.jpg" width="242" height="242" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Hi there! (NASA Photo: H. Weaver (JHU/APL), A. Stern (SwRI), and the HST Pluto Companion Search Team, Via Wikimedia Commons)</p></div></p>
<p>Fun fact: Pluto was named in 1930 by an 11-year-old girl. In the spirit of her christening skills, <em>Wired </em><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/name-plutos-tiniest-moons/">reports</a>, astronomers at the SETI Institute is asking the Internet to help name two tiny, newly discovered moons of Pluto. They've created a website dubbed "<a href="http://www.plutorocks.com/">Pluto Rocks</a>!" with a list of possibilities for which you can cast your ballot.<!--more--></p>
<p>Included are such dignified options as Persephone, for Hades' captive wife, and Acheron, for one of the rivers flowing through the underworld. <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/plutorocks.com/voting/dramatis-personae">Here is a cheat sheet</a> for those who did not spend their childhoods pouring over <a href="http://www.amazon.com/DAulaires-Greek-Myths-Ingri-dAulaire/dp/0440406943"><em>D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths.</em></a></p>
<p>On that website, there is also a <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/plutorocks.com/voting/write-in">write-in ballot</a>. We can't believe we even have to say this, but between <a href="http://betabeat.com/2012/12/petition-to-build-a-death-star-gets-the-25000-signatures-it-needs-to-be-reviewed-by-white-house/">the We the People fiasco</a> and the elevation of a cat (rather than the obviously superior robot) to <a href="http://betabeat.com/2013/02/new-monopoly-token-cat-goodbye-iron/">the Monopoly canon</a>, we feel we must: Don't submit the names of any fucking Pokemon, or any dumb Internet memes, or Stephen Colbert, or--God forbid--<a href="http://betabeat.com/2012/12/kim-jong-un-wins-times-person-of-the-year-reader-poll-with-a-little-help-from-4chan/">Kim Jong-un</a>. Don't you <em>dare</em>.</p>
<p>These are celestial bodies that will continue to circle Pluto long after your bones have disintegrated into the Earth. Please treat this occasion with the gravity it deserves.</p>
<p>Luckily, the astronomers have already foreseen the biggest pitfall of soliciting the "wisdom" of the crowds, and the ballot stipulates, "<span style="font-size:medium;">Names for the moons of Pluto must come from Greek or Roman mythology and must be related to Pluto/Hades and the underworld.</span>"</p>
<p>Unless your cutesy wisecrack is actually a clever riff on the legends of the Greco-Roman ancient world (and remember, Uranus is already taken) please, for the love of Zeus, don't waste their time.</p>
<p>(h/t <a href="http://www.themarysue.com/vote-to-name-plutos-smallest-moons/">The Mary Sue</a>)</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_79017" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 252px"><a href="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/pluto_and_its_satellites_2005_without_labels.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-79017  " alt="Hi there! (NASA Photo: H. Weaver (JHU/APL), A. Stern (SwRI), and the HST Pluto Companion Search Team, Via WikiMedia)" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/pluto_and_its_satellites_2005_without_labels.jpg" width="242" height="242" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Hi there! (NASA Photo: H. Weaver (JHU/APL), A. Stern (SwRI), and the HST Pluto Companion Search Team, Via Wikimedia Commons)</p></div></p>
<p>Fun fact: Pluto was named in 1930 by an 11-year-old girl. In the spirit of her christening skills, <em>Wired </em><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/name-plutos-tiniest-moons/">reports</a>, astronomers at the SETI Institute is asking the Internet to help name two tiny, newly discovered moons of Pluto. They've created a website dubbed "<a href="http://www.plutorocks.com/">Pluto Rocks</a>!" with a list of possibilities for which you can cast your ballot.<!--more--></p>
<p>Included are such dignified options as Persephone, for Hades' captive wife, and Acheron, for one of the rivers flowing through the underworld. <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/plutorocks.com/voting/dramatis-personae">Here is a cheat sheet</a> for those who did not spend their childhoods pouring over <a href="http://www.amazon.com/DAulaires-Greek-Myths-Ingri-dAulaire/dp/0440406943"><em>D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths.</em></a></p>
<p>On that website, there is also a <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/plutorocks.com/voting/write-in">write-in ballot</a>. We can't believe we even have to say this, but between <a href="http://betabeat.com/2012/12/petition-to-build-a-death-star-gets-the-25000-signatures-it-needs-to-be-reviewed-by-white-house/">the We the People fiasco</a> and the elevation of a cat (rather than the obviously superior robot) to <a href="http://betabeat.com/2013/02/new-monopoly-token-cat-goodbye-iron/">the Monopoly canon</a>, we feel we must: Don't submit the names of any fucking Pokemon, or any dumb Internet memes, or Stephen Colbert, or--God forbid--<a href="http://betabeat.com/2012/12/kim-jong-un-wins-times-person-of-the-year-reader-poll-with-a-little-help-from-4chan/">Kim Jong-un</a>. Don't you <em>dare</em>.</p>
<p>These are celestial bodies that will continue to circle Pluto long after your bones have disintegrated into the Earth. Please treat this occasion with the gravity it deserves.</p>
<p>Luckily, the astronomers have already foreseen the biggest pitfall of soliciting the "wisdom" of the crowds, and the ballot stipulates, "<span style="font-size:medium;">Names for the moons of Pluto must come from Greek or Roman mythology and must be related to Pluto/Hades and the underworld.</span>"</p>
<p>Unless your cutesy wisecrack is actually a clever riff on the legends of the Greco-Roman ancient world (and remember, Uranus is already taken) please, for the love of Zeus, don't waste their time.</p>
<p>(h/t <a href="http://www.themarysue.com/vote-to-name-plutos-smallest-moons/">The Mary Sue</a>)</p>
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