{"id":9977,"date":"2011-07-20T17:50:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T17:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/07\/20\/yeah-but-how-do-you-pronounce\/"},"modified":"2011-07-20T17:50:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T17:50:57","slug":"yeah-but-how-do-you-pronounce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/20\/yeah-but-how-do-you-pronounce\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah but &#8230; how do you pronounce S\/2011 P1?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They won&#8217;t let Pluto be a planet but it still bears the responsibility of having moons, and until just now there were three known moons of the tiny non-planet, named Hydra, Charon and Nix.<\/p>\n<p>Now there are four,  and the fourth one is called Essslashtwoohoneonepeeone.<\/p>\n<p>They are working on another name.  <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/07\/20\/pluto-has-another-moon\/\">Bad Astronomer has details about the new find. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is some difficulty in coming up with a name since the theme of the existing names (night-based Roman mythical character) is tapped out.  I was thinking it should be called one of the following:<\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fifi<\/li>\n<li>Dinah<\/li>\n<li>Ronnie<\/li>\n<li>Or, to be funny, Milton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Or, to be more accurate in terms of size and such, maybe just &#8220;<em>Pluto&#8217;s Kid Brother<\/em>&#8221; or &#8220;<em>k.b<\/em>&#8221; for short.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wcqK49jB3vM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They won&#8217;t let Pluto be a planet but it still bears the responsibility of having moons, and until just now there were three known moons of the tiny non-planet, named Hydra, Charon and Nix. Now there are four, and the fourth one is called Essslashtwoohoneonepeeone. They are working on another name. Bad Astronomer has details &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/20\/yeah-but-how-do-you-pronounce\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yeah but &#8230; how do you pronounce S\/2011 P1?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2AV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}