Trekkies Vote 'Vulcan' Into the Solar System 138
New submitter jollyrgr3 writes "If William Shatner gets his wish, one of Pluto's two new moons will be named Vulcan. The two small moons were discovered recently, and the SETI Institute launched an online poll to let people choose names. Captain Kirk himself suggested the names Vulcan and Romulus. Vulcan was accepted as a candidate, and Shatner exhorted his Twitter followers to vote. Vulcan ended up winning by a landslide, taking 174,000 of the 450,000 total responses. The next highest was Cerberus at just shy of 100,000. The names still have to be approved by the International Astronomical Union, as they have the final say. Leonard Nimoy approves."
FU Trekkie geeks (Score:4, Funny)
I'm starting a NEW poll for Wookie and Ewok.
these moons have been hard to find (Score:5, Funny)
Re:FU Trekkie geeks (Score:2, Funny)
Wouldn't it be better to try to get the entire Pluto mess renamed "Alderaan"?
Downgraded from fiction to reality (Score:4, Funny)
Since there's new Star Trek Movies (Score:4, Funny)
In keeping with the new Star Trek movies, they should be called "Lens" and "Flare".
Re:Cerberus... (Score:2, Funny)
Save the name Vulcan for a desert exoplanet.
A desert exoplanet will be properly named Arrakis, you insensitive clod.
Re:Cerberus... (Score:2, Funny)
You misspelt Tatooine, you nerf herder.
Re:That will just confuse things. (Score:2, Funny)
Well, since Pluto is already a non-planet with a God's name...
Surely you mean that Pluto is a non-planet with a *dog's* name? :-)