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

[Larry Lebofsky]

I am surprised that they actually accepted that at all. They reeally do try to 
avoid confusion of names.

I have observed in one night asteroid 1036 Ganymed and Jupiter's moon Ganymede 
and on another night asteroid 52 Europa and Jupiter's moon Europa (need to be 
very careful with one's observing log).

Larry

Quoting Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net>:

> 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".
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