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October 13, 2007

Nixes Mate

Hubble_nix_1Paris_psaulter_gr139_fol435v Last year, the Hubble Space Telescope nearly fried its eye gathering enough off axis photons to reveal Pluto's two new and unsuspected moons, Nix and Hydra.Now  ten images gathered by the adaptive optics of the giant ground-based Keck telescope in Hawaii have been integrated into a clearer view

Nixes_ges As to  Hydra, Nix's companion in the Plutonian  suburbs, I hope they leave it off the star charts, lest dyslexic New England astrogators confound it  with  the eponymous rock in Boston Harbor, formerly the site of a gibbet for showing off freshly hanged pirates, quakers and such.

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