A vote for Yuggoth is a vote for Lovecraft

**Bishop** · 14th February 2013, 12:22 PM

http://www.plutorocks.com/write-in

Write in ballot for naming a moon around Pluto. We know it's name and the world should recognize it. Yoggoth it should be!

**trevlix** · 15th February 2013, 02:15 AM

Apparently SETI is having some sort of voting for the names they will propose to the IAU for two new moons of Pluto. Best part, you can write-in names!

http://www.plutorocks.com/write-in

C'mon everyone! We need one named Yuggoth!

**Noble** · 15th February 2013, 07:18 AM

Voted!

**Mulciber** · 15th February 2013, 07:45 AM

Trouble is, they're only accepting names from Graeco-Roman mythology.

**Chad Out of Space** · 15th February 2013, 10:38 AM

I would vote for Percy, after Percival Lowell.

**WinstonP** · 15th February 2013, 11:56 AM

That's why you vote for Ioggotum but point out its rendered as Yuggoth in English. List a few classical "sources" as well.

**PoC** · 15th February 2013, 01:32 PM

[Threads merged.]

Good idea!

**GBSteve** · 15th February 2013, 01:37 PM

I hope Styx wins. If we can't have HPL, at least we can have Metal.

**cjearkham** · 15th February 2013, 04:26 PM

I voted for Yuggoth anyway, saying this:

"By tradition, the names of Pluto's moons come from Greek and Roman mythology, and are related to the ancient tales about Hades and the Underworld." So it's simply tradition and can be changed.

In 1930, H. P. Lovecraft, who was an amateur astronomer and had written astronomy columns for a Rhode Island newspaper when younger, learned of Tombaugh's discovery of Pluto and incorporated it into a story he was writing, "The Whisperer in Darkness", as the planet his aliens called "Yuggoth".

**Spratleys** · 15th February 2013, 08:18 PM

I said modern myths can be just as potent and evocative as ancient ones therefore nming the moon Yuggoth would be a tribute to HPL

**ElijahWhateley** · 15th February 2013, 11:33 PM

Surely Lovecraft was classically influenced enough that we can find something Graeco-Roman that also appears in his works.

**Lovecrust** · 16th February 2013, 02:27 PM

They may or may not have ignored us completely.

**ElijahWhateley** · 16th February 2013, 04:08 PM

Yep. Looks like the leader is Vulcan, followed by Styx and Cerberus. I can't help but think that those names have their own vote boosts from pop-culture significance.