07-06-2017, 09:43 PM
No problem at all, it was a fun experiment!
Do you mean Pluto's main moon or the second largest? I'd have got the main moon in an instant (Charon), it's well-known especially amongst astronomers given the history of its discovery, but would have had no chance with the second largest (which, after looking it up, is either Nix or Hydra).
Don't know about pub quizzes here. Hopefully someone can answer that without looking it up.
PS. As I learned today, Nereid was discovered in 1949 by Kuiper, (and that's where the name Kuiper Belt comes from) and Proteus, despite being larger, was only discovered during the Voyager 2 flyby in 1989.
Do you mean Pluto's main moon or the second largest? I'd have got the main moon in an instant (Charon), it's well-known especially amongst astronomers given the history of its discovery, but would have had no chance with the second largest (which, after looking it up, is either Nix or Hydra).
Don't know about pub quizzes here. Hopefully someone can answer that without looking it up.
PS. As I learned today, Nereid was discovered in 1949 by Kuiper, (and that's where the name Kuiper Belt comes from) and Proteus, despite being larger, was only discovered during the Voyager 2 flyby in 1989.