Signs of Planet X... um, IX
- Thread starter Lavanya Six
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Student of Zelretch
Give me back ice on my lake.
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- Wisconsin Public Radio
Might want to ask for a threadmerge, i'm afraid.
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- spinning
Maybe Pluto, for governing the cold underworld?
Aaron Peori
Rest in Peace
Great. Now the 'Nibiru' people will never shut up.
(Don't google it, for your own sanity.)
(Don't google it, for your own sanity.)
magic9mushroom
BEST END.
That would be...
...so sweet.
(There is already an asteroid called that, but it's not a particularly important one.)
Pluto didn't lose its name when it was demoted. Too much potential confusion to do that.
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Spartakrod
Judeo-Spartacist Bolshevik-Kabbalist
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- Fae/Faer/Faers/Faerself
Minerva makes the most sense.
Right, a planet matters more, no-one's gonna mix those up
Agreed, Pluto is Pluto, and it has Charon, a myth related name itself. Pluto's also still fitting as being just outside the main cluster of planets.
There's also Bellona and Vesta, but I stand by Juno ^^
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- The Land of Many Bregrets
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- They/Them
Why can't we just call it Pluto?
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- At your local SPCA
You all can thank the Doge Space Exploration Program.
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- Volksstaat Hessen, Deutsches Reich
Both Juno and Minerva were members of the Capitoline Triad, so I don't think you can say one of them is "higher ranked" than the other. Figures that the early modern period, when naming new planets, deliberately "forgot" about the two female members of the Capitoline Triad and went straight for "lesser" but male deities, eh?
Augustinianfrog
Did someone say coffee?
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- Mistakes were made
"Call me a Dwarf Planet huh? Well I'll show them...I'll show them!"
If this planet is not called "Hades", then I will sincerely lose faith is astronomers' ability to name things portentuously.
Yes, I know I might be tempting fate here, what with all those space horror tropes out there. But come on, an unknown, dark planet called Hades. Wouldn't that be just plain cool?
Yes, I know I might be tempting fate here, what with all those space horror tropes out there. But come on, an unknown, dark planet called Hades. Wouldn't that be just plain cool?
Professor Vesca
Good News Everyone!
Does this mean we can finally refill our depleted stores of the shaving cream atom?
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- Patriarchova
I'll take "what is Yuggoth?" for $500.
Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
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- Across the Horizon
Doesn't fit the naming scheme, Hades is Pluto already, which is just a later name for him.
This is really freaking cool! A whole new fucking gas giant?!?! What?!
That's nuts.
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Richardson
CAN YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING?
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Well, technically we've known about it ever since the NICE solar system formation model came out. We just never figured out where it went after Jupiter drop-kicked it.
Vorpal
Neither a dandy nor a clown
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Eh, not convinced. The initial proposed names for the planets discovered in the early modern period weren't even Greco-Roman, but things like George's Star and Herschel. It's not true that astronomers forgot about Juno or Minerva, as they were included when people argued about these things. However, the Greek mythological name Ouranos became more popular as it extended the ancient patrilineal chain of Mars↤Jupiter↤Saturn to include Saturn's father (his mother was Terra, so already present), so it was less 'no women' and more 'people like neatly connected lists'.
Though why not Caelus, I don't know. Regardless, once that's done, calling the next one Neptune to complete the Earth:Sky:Sea triad is kind of obvious.
Sandy River DL
(Verified Destroyer Leader)
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- Lake Michigan
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- Her/She
How 'bout Erebus?
"In Greek mythology, Erebus /ˈɛrəbəs/, also Erebos (Greek: Ἔρεβος, "deep darkness, shadow"),[1] was often conceived as a primordial deity, representing the personification of darkness;"
I like it. Totally fitting, too.
I know I'm being a bit terrible with this question, but would this object even count as a planet?
Specifically, would it have cleared it's neighborhood?
(I'd find it hilarious if a mass ten times earth hadn't, and thus didn't count as a planet.)
Specifically, would it have cleared it's neighborhood?
(I'd find it hilarious if a mass ten times earth hadn't, and thus didn't count as a planet.)
Richardson
CAN YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING?
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Given that at LEAST six major objects have been influenced into a resonance with its orbit, it would be fair to say that it gravitationally dominates its orbital parameters.
They seemed to be at least partially inspired by the Greek ranking, where Zeus/Poseidon/Hades were a big three, plus the King of the Titans, plus his dad.
Honestly they fit pretty well to me, but a Goddess seems the best bet this time. And yea, Minerva wouldn't be bad either, but I lean Juno.
Planets use Roman naming, not Greek.
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- He/Him
Twist ending: It's found by a group operating completely outside the cultural context that gave the other planets their names and winds up being named after, I dunno, the location of the observatory or something.