[meteorite-list] Pluto's Twin Moons Get Their Names

[Darren Garrison]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:05:07 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>Because an asteroid with the name Nyx already
>exists, the IAU decided to use a slightly different spelling for the
>inner one of the two small Plutonian moons, to avoid confusion. 

Hm.  If it is as simple as that, I'm sure that we could come up with some
alternate spellings for "Persephone".