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Hiya,

Not sure if this is the right place on the forum for this but there is currently a poll to get the planet Pluto's smallest moon named and one of the choices is Erebus.

Black Library have announced that if 40K fans can get the moon named Erebus it will feature in one of the Horus Heresy novels and will be destroyed.

There's a hint he might be on it at the time.....

Here is the link for the poll:

http://www.plutorocks.com/

And here is the Black Library Facebook announcement:

https://www.facebook.com/theblacklibrary?fref=ts

We are however facing pretty stiff competition from Star Trek fans as one of the options is Vulcan, so let's get voting....

You can cast multiple votes but only one per day.

You do realize that Trekkies probably outnumber 40K fans (or even those who are aware of 40K) by 100 to 1, right?

An interesting goal - but it is trying to stick a finger in the dike to stem the flood.

 Sean_OBrien wrote:
You do realize that Trekkies probably outnumber 40K fans (or even those who are aware of 40K) by 100 to 1, right?

An interesting goal - but it is trying to stick a finger in the dike to stem the flood.

Wow 40k really does drain all hope and optimism from everyone involved, GW are surprisingly good at the wole grim dark thing, who knew.

Awesome! Done! Death to Erebus!

StraightSilver wrote:
Hiya,

Not sure if this is the right place on the forum for this but there is currently a poll to get the planet Pluto's smallest moon named and one of the choices is Erebus.

Sounds neat.

Black Library have announced that if 40K fans can get the moon named Erebus it will feature in one of the Horus Heresy novels and will be destroyed.

Interesting...wait a sec

Horus Heresy novels

Horus Heresy novels

Voted for Vulcan.

voted styx, acheron and styx were my primary choices.

Don't name the thing after vulcan! He's the god of volcanoes... and I doubt there are volcanoes on this thing. Styx and Acheron were rivers you cross into the underworld... now how cool is that, for future spacefarers? And Styx just sounds cool.

Erebus is not a bad name either, much better than vulcan. But it will probably turn out to be vulcan because of all the ditsy Trekkies thinking that maybe they can imagine spock living there.

As a Retribution player I've gone for Hypnos. Sorry Black Library.

Nuts to your voting. As far as I'm concerned, that moon's name is Carl McAwesomepants.

I vote the Cryxian version of Erebus!

Voted for Thanatos, the name sounds awesome!

Don't care for any BL stuff unless it's about Necrons.

I want it called LV-426 and I want a manned expedition there ASAP!

I actually voted for multiple names, including Erebus, but not because I give a crap about the potential BL novel. I also like Acheron, Cerberus, Tartaus and Thanatos.

LV-426 gets my vote.

Voted, lets see it happen. Make it a valiant effort anyway.

Voted.

Prefer polls where you can see the current results.

Rage, how is Endor not an option for a moon?

We're saving that for a forest planet populated by teddy bears. Of course 4-chan would likely hijack the naming process to make Pedobear win.

 Grey Templar wrote:
We're saving that for a forest planet populated by teddy bears. Of course 4-chan would likely hijack the naming process to make Pedobear win.

Wouldn't it be grand if Anonymous hacked the poll and named the moon Anon!

Off topic, I glanced at the topic title and thought someone wanted me blown up

Erebus
Eberious

It was a very quick scan you undserstand.

Erebus is also the name of a Warmachine Cryx character 'jack, in the fact one I'm rocking in my sig right now.

 Flashman wrote:
Voted.

Prefer polls where you can see the current results.

You can, here....

http://www.plutorocks.com/current-tally

Styx vote Styx!

Voted for Cerberus and Persephone because I love Greek Mythology. Sorry BL!

On a side note, I'm curious about this whole naming thing. Nasa isn't the only space agency out there, and there is a whole world with opinions and such. Do we get to name it since we found it? Is that how this works?

Broadly speaking - if you find it...you get to name it, though convention tends to dictate that you can't name it after yourself, and tradition dictates that bodies within our solar system are named after Greek/Roman mythological figures (who happen to have the BL beat by a couple thousand years on Erebus...where he was the first from the primordial chaos IIRC).

In this case, the team who identified the moons were part of the Hubble team and decided that in order to drum up additional public interest it would be neat to have a contest to name the moons. Even after they choose a name though, it has to be approved by a different group (forget the name off the top of my head - but it is an international group of astronomers...the same ones who decided that Pluto was no longer a planet).

Gonna have to vote for Styx, if only so I can look up at pluto and start blasting old rock tunes.

I mean really, is there any other answer?

I voted Erebus and Thanatos.

You realise that if it gets named Erebus, GW will take copyright of the name and take ownership of the moon itself?

This will then ultimately lead to the moving of GW's HQ there in 2348, and regular comments that the company is too far removed from the fanbase.

I voted Lethe.

Vulcans already in use.

Was a planet thought to be between mercury and the sun.

Arthur C Clarke mentioned it in his proper science works.

 Sean_OBrien wrote:
Broadly speaking - if you find it...you get to name it, though convention tends to dictate that you can't name it after yourself, and tradition dictates that bodies within our solar system are named after Greek/Roman mythological figures (who happen to have the BL beat by a couple thousand years on Erebus...where he was the first from the primordial chaos IIRC).

In this case, the team who identified the moons were part of the Hubble team and decided that in order to drum up additional public interest it would be neat to have a contest to name the moons. Even after they choose a name though, it has to be approved by a different group (forget the name off the top of my head - but it is an international group of astronomers...the same ones who decided that Pluto was no longer a planet).

Answers that! Thanks!