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The public selection of names of two moons of Pluto at Pluto Rocks!<\/a> has finished and the winners announced: Scientists go with people’s choice for Pluto moons: Vulcan, Cerberus – Cosmic Log<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The public selection of names of two moons of Pluto at Pluto Rocks! has finished and the winners announced: Scientists go with people’s choice for Pluto moons: Vulcan, Cerberus – Cosmic Log<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests-and-games","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-uF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3144,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3144","url_meta":{"origin":1901,"position":0},"title":"IAU sets its names for new Pluto moons – Vulcan not accepted","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The International Astronomical Union (IAU), which likes to present itself as the decider of all things astronomical, issued a press release on names for the Moons of Pluto today:\u00a0 Names for New Pluto Moons Accepted by the IAU After Public Vote -\u00a0 IAU. 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