{"id":12527,"date":"2006-06-26T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/26\/two-new-moons-confirmed-orbiting-pluto\/"},"modified":"2006-06-26T22:42:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T22:42:00","slug":"two-new-moons-confirmed-orbiting-pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/26\/two-new-moons-confirmed-orbiting-pluto\/","title":{"rendered":"Two New Moons Confirmed Orbiting Pluto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory?id=2105082\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/pluto_nix_hydra.jpg\" alt=\"Pluto and moons\" align=\"right\" width=\"120\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a><i>ABC News<\/i> reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory?id=2105082\" target=\"_blank\">two recently-discovered moons orbiting Pluto have been named Nix and Hydra<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Hubble Space Telescope spotted the two satellites more than twice as far away as Charon and many times fainter.<br \/>&hellip;<br \/>The names, with roots in Greek mythology, were selected in part because their first letters, &ldquo;N&rdquo; and &ldquo;H,&rdquo; were a tribute to the New Horizons spacecraft, Stern said Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pretty cool&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neatorama<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/astronomy\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">astronomy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/space\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">space<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/science\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">science<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-115106821260925171?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News reports that two recently-discovered moons orbiting Pluto have been named Nix and Hydra: The Hubble Space Telescope spotted the two satellites more than twice as far away as Charon and many times fainter.&hellip;The names, with roots in Greek mythology, were selected in part because their first letters, &ldquo;N&rdquo; and &ldquo;H,&rdquo; were a tribute &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/26\/two-new-moons-confirmed-orbiting-pluto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two New Moons Confirmed Orbiting Pluto&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}