One moon of Pluto has been named Vulcan. This was proposed, appropriately, by William Shatner from Star Trek. The votes were taken online allowing the public to vote. The two moons without a name were called boringly P4 and P5.
Pluto moons
As hopefully most of you know Vulcan was the home planet of the first officer on the starship Enterprise played by Leonard Nimoy. SETI carried out the poll and agreed with the pick as it is the name of the God of fire in Roman mythology.
Pluto by NASA
Unfortunately, if you liked the name that is, this isn’t the official name as official names are picked by the International astronomical union.
There are five moons around Pluto the other three being called Charon, Nix and Hydra. P4 safe was discovered in 2011 and P5 in 2012 and both about 20 miles in diameter.
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