Pluto’s smallest moon likely to be named ‘Vulcan’

Update: 2013-02-27 23:51 GMT
One of the Pluto’s smallest moons may be named ‘Vulcan’ after it gathered maximum votes in an online public contest. The poll for suggesting names for the planet’s two unnamed moons currently called P4 and P5 was swept by ‘Vulcan’ and ‘Cerberus’ as polling closed. With a total of 450,324 total votes cast since February 11, ‘Vulcan,’ a Pluto moon name proposed by Star Trek’s William Shatner, is the clear winner, ‘SPACE.com’ reported. ‘174,062 votes and Vulcan came out on top of the voting for the naming of Pluto’s moons. Thank you to all who voted!’ wrote Shatner in a Tweet. Cerberus came in a clear second with nearly 100,000 votes. Vulcan was a late addition to the Pluto moon name contenders, and pulled into the lead after Shatner plugged the name on Twitter. Vulcan is not just a fictional world in the Star Trek universe.

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