2003 UB313 finally named

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Xena, now there's a name that can catch on too :D
 
yeah xena is a much better name. since it's not considered a planet i don't think it's necessary to follow the classical deity naming scheme.

Although the name Eris is very fitting, considered the debate it caused upon it's discovery. Eris was named after the goddess of strife and discord. :)
 
taillesskangaru said:
yeah xena is a much better name. since it's not considered a planet i don't think it's necessary to follow the classical deity naming scheme.

Although the name Eris is very fitting, considered the debate it caused upon it's discovery. Eris was named after the goddess of strife and discord. :)
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....One of the guys who discovered it has a spanish last name and eris sounds like the phoenetical (sp?) of Eres the spanish word you are

I looked up through my telescope and thought to my self que eres and then I figured it out.

....probably not but that is what I think of when I here eris ....that and the song
Eres from Cafe Tacuba.
 
Perfection said:
Why is it an ugly name?
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because I generally want to have intercourse with non-ugly things, and I do not wish to have intercourse with this particular (celestial) body.
 
Fifty said:
because I generally want to have intercourse with non-ugly things, and I do not wish to have intercourse with this particular (celestial) body.
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I like your avatar looking at it then re reading your post with tyson voice in my head ....Gold :p
 
Winner said:
Why waste good names on such unimportant pieces of ice? There are probably tens of thousands of them.
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For the really unimportant/ugly ones, there is always Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, or Newark.
 
Winner said:
Why waste good names on such unimportant pieces of ice? There are probably tens of thousands of them.
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Eris is probably among the few biggest.

Anyway, illustrious names have been attached to much smaller bodies for a couple centuries, like Pallas, Hector, and Apollo.
 
Winner said:
Why waste good names on such unimportant pieces of ice? There are probably tens of thousands of them.
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So Pluto deserves to be unnamed? And Ceres? As well as the various moons of the solar system? And mind you, Ceres (and various other named asteroids) used to be considered a planet when they were first discovered.

It's clear that through precedence, dwarf planets will be named in the same way that planets will.

Besides, Dysnomia is named after the goddess of lawlessness. You can't say that isn't related to the previous name. :p

And the discordians are pleased. Fnord.
 
Bill3000 said:
It's clear that through precedence, dwarf planets will be named in the same way that planets will.
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Actually, there's a difference; dwarf planets' official names begin with a number, whereas proper planets' don't. It's thus formally "136199 Eris", "1 Ceres", and "134340 Pluto", but simply "Mars", "Neptune", etc.

(The reason the numbers go so high, BTW, is that the numbers enumerate the so-called "minor planets", which category basically includes anything that's not a planet, satellite, comet, or meteoroid.)
 
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