(one of the commenters to this story asked: How many moons does Pluto have to have before they call it a planet again? :o )

Hubble telescope spots new Pluto moon (http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/07/11/sci-pluto-moon-hubble.html)

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/photos/2012/07/11/hi-pluto-moon-8col.jpg (http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/07/11/sci-pluto-moon-hubble.html?cmp=rss)

ASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a new moon orbiting the dwarf planet Pluto, the fifth such satellite to be discovered and the smallest one to date.

The moon, provisionally named S/2012 (134340) 1, or P5, travels in an orbit around Pluto that is 95,000 kilometres in diameter and lies in the same plane as the orbits of its other moons.

"The moons form a series of neatly nested orbits, a bit like Russian dolls,"Astronomers hope to learn even more about Pluto and its moons when the New Horizons spacecraft makes a high-speed fly-by past the distant dwarf planet in July 2015, getting as close as 10,000 kilometres from Pluto.

Scientists hope the NASA spacecraft will bring back the first detailed images of Pluto, which is so small and far away that even the Hubble can only barely detect very large features on its surface.

(CBC (http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/07/11/sci-pluto-moon-hubble.html?cmp=rss))

Pluto was and is a planet to me and always will be ever since I learned it in grade school in the 1950s. And Uranus is still pronounced the way I was taught and it ain't 'yer an us'. ;)

Pluto is what it is, regardless of how homo sapiens, in its infinite (albeit ever-shifting) wisdom, designates it. It's kind of funny, on a cosmic scale. But I'm glad to hear that the thing has five moons. Somehow that gives me a charge.

I'm with you, Sinc. We pronounced Uranus the same way. Strangely enough, we never joked about it.

I'm with you, Sinc. We pronounced Uranus the same way. Strangely enough, we never joked about it.

As if calling it "Urinous" is some sort of dodge.

But it functioned as such all the same... at least in some people's minds.

I propose that the 1.5 millionth poster on ehMac gets to name P4, and the 2 millionth gets to name P5.

If I win the next contest, I want to call it P4.

I just hope I win so I can call one of them PP.

If I win the next contest, I want to call it P4.
Then I suppose P5 should be After.

Seriously, I think it's cool that we're still finding things in our own solar system.

As if calling it "Urinous" is some sort of dodge.

That's still got to be one of my favorite jokes from futurama:
Farnsworth: "it isn't called Uranus anymore since the renamed it in 2020 to put an end to that stupid joke once and for all."
Fry: "so what's it called now?"
Farnsworth: "Urectum."

That's still got to be one of my favorite jokes from futurama:
Farnsworth: "it isn't called Uranus anymore since the renamed it in 2020 to put an end to that stupid joke once and for all."
Fry: "so what's it called now?"
Farnsworth: "Urectum."

That's hilarious, never heard that one before! :D

Since Pluto has been stripped of its Planetary Birthright, does it not follow that these are not Moons? Perhaps they more properly should be referred to as; Moonies.:D

Since Pluto has been stripped of its Planetary Birthright, does it not follow that these are not Moons? Perhaps they more properly should be referred to as; Moonies.:D

As a comic in all seriousness, I believe you have to be classed as a planet in order to have moons. Which means the body that de-classified Pluto has some 'splainin' to do.