Caren Krutsinger Poet Rhyme

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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Paula Goldsmith April 2, 2021 at 1:48 PM "So Cute" I don't care what they say. Pluto will always be a planet. Have a blessed day, weekend and Easter................. Caren Krutsinger April 2, 2021 at 9:49 PM To me she is a planet also!

Ann Peck April 2, 2021 at 12:40 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. Caren Krutsinger April 2, 2021 at 9:50 PM Thank you Ann. I agree!

Robert Pettit April 2, 2021 at 6:35 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. Caren Krutsinger April 2, 2021 at 9:50 PM Thank you Robert. I like Pluto being a planet in our world.

L Milton Hankins April 1, 2021 at 8:32 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. Caren Krutsinger April 2, 2021 at 4:19 AM I think you are correct but whatever it is it has five moons.