"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Fifth Moon Discovered Around Pluto
Please see http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/13jul_pluto5/ and What do Hydra, Nix, Charon, and P4 have in common?.
Tiny Pluto has 5 moons and maybe more will be discovered.
I suggest there are better names than P4 and P5.
Scientists suggest "all the moons are relics of a collision between Pluto and another large Kuiper Belt object billions of years ago."
Or perhaps Pluto's moons were created out of nothing 6,000 years ago by the magic Jeebus man.
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