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Nix a Moon of Pluto

I was discovered by the Pluto Search Team in 2005 My large red impact crater showing them I am semi-alive. I have since discovered it was June fifteenth by earth years My image got uploaded by New Horizons, one of my fears They named me Nix, after a Greek Goddess of the Night. I have no qualms about this, shall stir up no argument or fight. I am one of five moons, smack in the middle, orbiting Pluto. Charon, Styx, Kerberos and Hydra are the others I know. Some say I am thirty miles across, others say it is forty. I am elongated, for a moon, I am certainly no shorty. I was surprised to see Earthlings had advanced this far. I did not think at this time they would reach even one star.

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Date: 4/2/2021 1:48:00 PM
"So Cute" I don't care what they say. Pluto will always be a planet. Have a blessed day, weekend and Easter.................
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 4/2/2021 9:49:00 PM
To me she is a planet also!
Date: 4/2/2021 12:40:00 PM
I'll always call Pluto a planet--the heck with those others, just because they're big! The astronomer who discovered Pluto was from this city originally. That is a very good poem, Caren, and very interesting.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 4/2/2021 9:50:00 PM
Thank you Ann. I agree!
Date: 4/2/2021 6:35:00 AM
Yes, Pluto is no longer classified as a planet. It is referred to as a "Plutrino". Many other bodies similar to Pluto have been discovered orbiting beyond Neptune. Nice poem about one of those objects so far away.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 4/2/2021 9:50:00 PM
Thank you Robert. I like Pluto being a planet in our world.
Date: 4/1/2021 8:32:00 PM
Very interesting rhyme, Caren. I thought Pluto was downgraded, but it might have been one of the others. I don't follow the stars so much.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 4/2/2021 4:19:00 AM
I think you are correct but whatever it is it has five moons.

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