{"id":23540,"date":"2013-02-26T10:33:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T18:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=23540"},"modified":"2016-09-11T04:19:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T11:19:06","slug":"vulcan-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2013\/02\/vulcan-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulcan Wins!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The final tally for the vote to name two moons of Pluto is in, and Vulcan has outpaced all its competitors.<\/p>\n

Vulcan, and the second-place finisher, Cerberus, were the two top vote getters, with only Vulcan receiving over one hundred thousand votes.<\/p>\n

Vulcan received 174,062 votes, followed by Cerberus at 99,432 votes. Rounding out the top five are Styx (87,858), Persephone (68,969), and Orpheus (51,197). In all, 450,324 votes were submitted.<\/p>\n

“174,062 votes and Vulcan came out on top of the voting for the naming of Pluto’s moons,” said William Shatner<\/strong> via Twitter. “Thank you to all who voted!”<\/p>\n

Winning the contest does not mean that the winning names will automatically be used, however. But Mark Showalter<\/strong>, leader of the teams that discovered the tiny moons, temporarily named P4 and P5, said that he is leaning towards the popular vote.<\/p>\n

On the Pluto Rocks<\/em> website, Showalter asked voters to “please be patient now [as] it could take 1-2 months for the final names of P4 and P5 to be selected and approved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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