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."
That will just confuse things. (Score:5, Insightful)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(hypothetical_planet) [wikipedia.org]
Vulcan was the name of the hypothetical planet between Mercury and the Sun.
Re:Very Amazing (Score:4, Insightful)
Shatner is a very funny man, who doesn't take himself very seriously.
Why wouldn't he have twitter followers?
Re:Meh. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:FU Trekkie geeks (Score:5, Insightful)
Don't you mean the forest moon of Endor? I understand that the moon and the planet it orbited (long long ago) had the same name colloquially, but if we must be pedants, let us be truly pedantic.
Re:Trekkies jumping the gun (Score:4, Insightful)
They did the same thing with the shuttle Enterprise. A drop-test glider that never flew in space. Well done boys.