Hades God Of Underworld

What would you name Pluto's latest moon?

Pluto was demoted to "dwarf planet" status back in 2006, the same year my older nephew was born. When he starts school this fall, he'll learn that there are just eight major planets in the solar system and they'll probably forget to include the "dwarf planets." This is confusing, since one of the few things I remember (at least without looking it up) from elementary school science is in what order the planets orbit our sun. If he asks me, I'll have to remember to tell him there are eight, not nine, planets but in my heart of hearts I'll always count little Pluto as one of them.

Scientists just discovered that this so-called dwarf has a fourth moon. The first three Plutonian moons all have very important-sounding, foreboding mythological names: Charon, Nix, Hydra.

Pluto himself, or Hades, to use his Greek name, was the god of the underworld. Pluto is his Roman name and the Greek and Roman myths are nearly identical. One of the myths about the god is about why we have a winter and a summer.Hades kidnapped Persephone to his wife and his mother, the goddess of the harvest, and wasting away without it stopped growing plants. Finally, the god Zeus ordered Hades to return Persephone to let his mother. But Hades had tricked Persephone into eating a pomegranate when she was in the underworld, which meant she had to spend part of the year with her husband in the underworld and part of it above the ground with her mother. When she is with her mother, it is summer and when she returns to live with Hades, her mother is in mourning and it is winter.

The moons all have some sort of connection to the underworld.In Greek mythology, Charon was the ferryman who took the dead across the river separating the land of the living and the dead. Nix or Nyx was the Greek goddess of the night and the mother of Charon. Hydra was a nine-headed serpent that guarded one of the gates of hell.

Now scientists have to decide on what he calls the fourth moon, which is a rather insignificant piece of ice between 8 and 21 miles wide, but they are short of names. They would call Cerberus, after the terrible three-headed dog that was another of the guards at the gates of hell. Since the ball of ice is so small, it makes sense to name it after the scary dog. The problem is that there's already an asteroid named Cerberus.

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