Long time, lonely Pluto plied
the outermost orbit (or we thought so).
The scarcest speck in a telescope,
'til New Horizon's postcards home
revealed a frozen but varied view,
since then known by names of nightmares--
a topography of fictional terrors--
chthonian beings, Cthulhu to Balrog.
And the north pole of the psychopomp
moon Charon is Mordor itself.
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