Pluto’s tiny new moon needs a real name.
Right now astronomers are using two boring designators for it – P4 and S/2011 P1.
Ironically, the body tasked with approving an official name for the new moon is the same one that stripped Pluto of its planet status in 2006 — the International Astronomical Union (IAU) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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