The International Astronomical Union officially named Pluto's newest moons Nix (or Pluto II, the inner of the two moons, formerly P 2) and Hydra (Pluto III, the outer moon, formerly P 1), on June 21 , 2006
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Pluto has five known moons: Charon (the largest, with a diameter just over half that of Pluto), Nix, Hydra, Kerberos, and Styx.
Scientists have known for ten years that Pluto's moon, Hydra existed – and little more than that.
Previously, it had been shown that HyNaC2/3/5 has a ten times higher apparent affinity for Hydra-RFamide II than for Hydra-RFamide I [ 4].
P4 became Kerberos, the three-headed guard dog of the underworld, thus joining the rest of Pluto's moons — Charon, Hydra, Nix, and Styx (formerly P5) — at what might otherwise seem to be a convention of eighties-hair-metal tribute bands.
(A) To search for crystallization conditions, an automated robot (Hydra II plus) and 96-well screen trays were used for high throughput screening.
Initial crystallization conditions were screened using a Hydra II Plus One crystallization robot (Matrix Technology) with commercial crystallization-solution kits, JCSG Core Suite I IV and PACT Suite (Qiagen).
When they did, seven months before launch, they discovered that Pluto had two previously unobserved moons, Nix and Hydra.
Only for HyNaC2/11/5 was the apparent affinity for Hydra-RFamide II about 15-fold higher than for Hydra-RFamide I (0.95 μM compared with 13.8 μM).
You may not remember her in Men in Black II or Pluto Nash, but she's there, bringing the energy, playing the game, clocking up the credits.
