[meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto

From: karmaka <karmaka_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:10:46 +0200 (CEST)
Message-ID: <1743644637.194422.1311196246506.JavaMail.fmail_at_mwmweb042>

ACHLYS has not been used for any asteroid or other object as far as I know.

http://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Akhlys.html

Martin


-----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
Von: lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu
Gesendet: 20.07.2011 22:56:04
An: warnerem at astro.umd.edu
Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon around Pluto

>Hi Elizabeth:
>
>The big problem with cerberus is that there is already 1865 Cerberus, an
>Apollo asteroid. IAU Nomenclatur Committee tries to avoid duplication like
>that though there are several existing examples.
>
>Larry
>
>> Actually, one of the discoverers (Dr. Doug Hamilton, UMaryland) has a
>> preference for Cerberus...
>>
>> Fits in with the mythology... and as the discoverers, Showalter and
>> Hamilton get to name it...
>>
>> Clear Skies!
>> Elizabeth
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/20/2011 4:38 PM, karmaka wrote:
>>> If it has to be Greek, how about
>>>
>>> ACHLYS
>>>
>>> the personification of Eternal Night, a daughter of NYX ?
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achlys
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>> -----Urspr??ngliche Nachricht-----
>>> Von: karmaka<karmaka at email.de>
>>> Gesendet: 20.07.2011 22:29:29
>>> An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>>> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon
>>> around Pluto
>>>
>>>> How should S/2011 (134340) 1
>>>> be called?
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> How about KALI ?
>>>>
>>>> It's not Greek, but ...
>>>>
>>>> Martin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Urspr??ngliche Nachricht-----
>>>> Von: karmaka<karmaka at email.de>
>>>> Gesendet: 20.07.2011 22:11:26
>>>> An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>>>> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon
>>>> around Pluto
>>>>
>>>>> Fascinating news !!!
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for sharing this, Robert.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's hard to wait another four years until New Horizons reveals more
>>>>> secrets
>>>> >from the icy spheres around Pluto.
>>>>>
>>>>> But that's 'space'
>>>>>
>>>>> Best wishes
>>>>>
>>>>> Martin
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Urspr??ngliche Nachricht-----
>>>>> Von: "Matson, Robert D."<ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com>
>>>>> Gesendet: 20.07.2011 20:35:17
>>>>> An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>>>>> Betreff: [meteorite-list] Hubble Space Telescope discovers 4th moon
>>>>> around Pluto
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Pluto has a 4th moon! Here's a link to the CBAT:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/cbet/cbet002769.txt
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Below is the NASA News release:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> July 20, 2011
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Trent J. Perrotto
>>>>>> Headquarters, Washington
>>>>>> trent.j.perrotto at nasa.gov
>>>>>> 202-358-0321
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ray Villard
>>>>>> Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore
>>>>>> villard at stsci.edu
>>>>>> 410-338-4514
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Karen Randall
>>>>>> SETI Institute, Mountain View, Calif.
>>>>>> krandall at seti.org
>>>>>> 650-960-4537
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> RELEASE: 11-234
>>>>>>
>>>>>> NASA'S HUBBLE DISCOVERS ANOTHER MOON AROUND PLUTO
>>>>>>
>>>>>> WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered
>>>>>> a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new
>>>>>> satellite, temporarily designated P4, was uncovered in a Hubble
>>>>>> survey searching for rings around the dwarf planet.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The new moon is the smallest discovered around Pluto. It has an
>>>>>> estimated diameter of 8 to 21 miles (13 to 34 km). By comparison,
>>>>>> Charon, Pluto's largest moon, is 648 miles (1,043 km) across, and the
>>>>>> other moons, Nix and Hydra, are in the range of 20 to 70 miles in
>>>>>> diameter (32 to 113 km).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "I find it remarkable that Hubble's cameras enabled us to see such a
>>>>>> tiny object so clearly from a distance of more than 3 billion miles
>>>>>> (5 billion km)," said Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in
>>>>>> Mountain View, Calif., who led this observing program with Hubble.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The finding is a result of ongoing work to support NASA's New
>>>>>> Horizons
>>>>>> mission, scheduled to fly through the Pluto system in 2015. The
>>>>>> mission is designed to provide new insights about worlds at the edge
>>>>>> of our solar system. Hubble's mapping of Pluto's surface and
>>>>>> discovery of its satellites have been invaluable to planning for New
>>>>>> Horizons' close encounter.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "This is a fantastic discovery," said New Horizons' principal
>>>>>> investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in
>>>>>> Boulder, Colo. "Now that we know there's another moon in the Pluto
>>>>>> system, we can plan close-up observations of it during our flyby."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The new moon is located between the orbits of Nix and Hydra, which
>>>>>> Hubble discovered in 2005. Charon was discovered in 1978 at the U.S.
>>>>>> Naval Observatory and first resolved using Hubble in 1990 as a
>>>>>> separate body from Pluto.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The dwarf planet's entire moon system is believed to have formed by a
>>>>>> collision between Pluto and another planet-sized body early in the
>>>>>> history of the solar system. The smashup flung material that
>>>>>> coalesced into the family of satellites observed around Pluto.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Lunar rocks returned to Earth from the Apollo missions led to the
>>>>>> theory that our moon was the result of a similar collision between
>>>>>> Earth and a Mars-sized body 4.4 billion years ago. Scientists believe
>>>>>> material blasted off Pluto's moons by micrometeoroid impacts may form
>>>>>> rings around the dwarf planet, but the Hubble photographs have not
>>>>>> detected any so far.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "This surprising observation is a powerful reminder of Hubble's
>>>>>> ability as a general purpose astronomical observatory to make
>>>>>> astounding, unintended discoveries," said Jon Morse, astrophysics
>>>>>> division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> P4 was first seen in a photo taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3
>>>>>> on June 28. It was confirmed in subsequent Hubble pictures taken on
>>>>>> July 3 and July 18. The moon was not seen in earlier Hubble images
>>>>>> because the exposure times were shorter. There is a chance it
>>>>>> appeared as a very faint smudge in 2006 images, but was overlooked
>>>>>> because it was obscured.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hubble is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the
>>>>>> European Space Agency. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in
>>>>>> Greenbelt, Md., manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science
>>>>>> Institute (STScI) in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations.
>>>>>> STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for
>>>>>> Research in Astronomy Inc. in Washington.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For images and more information about Hubble, visit:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.nasa.gov/hubble
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://hubblesite.org/news/2011/23
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -end-
>>>>>>
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