Writer: Raghed Hamza
Editor: Abdallah Sobhi
Designer: Amr Gamal
Pluto1 and Charon2,
circling each other in a never-ending tug of war3
Little did anyone know, especially ambitious Lowell4
That a single tug here or there,
Would deem all theories,
Now and a century ago, erroneous
Pluto5 and Charon6,
Charon, ever the loyal servant,
Rowing the departed across the dreaded Styx –
The same one Achilles bathed in
And Pluto, residing in his throne of Black
Watching over Elysium and Asphodel
1: dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune
2: the largest moon of Pluto
3: Pluto and Charon are considered to be a binary system because the center of gravity is in neither one.
4: Percival Lowell, an astronomer who, for 14 years, was in search of a Planet X (then thought to be Pluto) which immensely affected the orbit of Neptune. It was later discovered that Pluto was too small to do that.
5: god of the Underworld
6: the ferryman of Pluto who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx
