Tenth Planet Has A Moon

[farting bob]

Some stupid TV show character that never really made much sense anyways is worthy of having a planet named after it?

Gabreille was hot, althoguh xena was too butch and manly for me. And the greek/roman gods the others are named for are just as fictional., so why not?

 

[The Last Conformist]

Jeezum, how many moons do Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus have, again?

Jupiter and Saturn both have over twenty. Uranus had fifteen last I heard.

 

[anarres]

And the Earth has at least 3, although wiki only refers to 2 of them, and it doesn't even think 3753 Cruithne is a moon!

Screw wiki

Edit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3753_Cruithne <- this is the "second moon"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_AA29 <- this is another "moon", but again, what is a "moon" anyway?

 

[The Last Conformist]

I wouldn't call either of those a satellite of the Earth ...

 

[h4ppy]

And to happy that says the whole Greek-Roman God naming has been done to death already, there isn't anything wrong with naming them after gods considering this naming process is probably the only way many people world wide know that Mars is the god of War and so forth.

And what does the name of the God of War have to do with modern times? Xena on the other hand is a cultural icon. I simply want these things named after modern things, just like how the ancients named them after ancient things.

 

[The Last Conformist]

You may be happy to learn there's an asteroid called Zappafrank ...

 

[madviking]

Zappafrank

How come some guy gets an asteroid.

 

[The Last Conformist]

How come some guy gets an asteroid.

Discoverers of minor bodies get to suggest a name, and if it's not too stupid the IAU will normally accept it. Apparently the discoverer of that particular one was something of a fan.

There's also an asteroid called Darwin.

 

[Bluemofia]

Bah! If it's a planet, name it after some Greek/Roman god(ess) that's not used. I don't think cupid is used, but I don't like it. I also don't think Thanatos has been used.

 

[h4ppy]

How come some guy gets an asteroid.

Frank Zappa is not just some guy.

 

[Winner]

How about "Sol-10"?

What about Sagittaron? Or Geminon, Tauron, Picon...

 

[Nate128]

How bout Pan

 

[Urederra]

It will be named Urederra.

 

[Fischfang]

The Greek or Roman thing:
And remember, the planets are given names fitting to their characteristics.
Mercury - The closet to the sun and therefore the quickest around it. Therefore it was seen as being a very fast messenger just like Hermes/Mercury.
Venus - This is the only one I'm not too sure about.
Mars - A blood red planet, what could be more fitting for the god of war?
Jupiter - A very large planet, therefore named after the captain of the gods Jupiter/Jove/Zeus.
Saturn - Another very large planet, and apparently in someone's mind seeming old, like father time a.k.a. Saturn/Chronos.
Neptune - Blue, just like the sea, this one is pretty obvious.
Uranus - Not very obvious, but it could have something to do with it being outside of all the other planets, just as the sky hangs over all the earth, or something.
Pluto - Dead and barren, very cold, it is very much like death.
Now, planet X, Hypnos - The god of dreams gets an eerie and hypnotic-looking (look at these clear references everywhere) planet named after him.

I don't think anyone knew the colour of neptune when it got its name

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Gabreille was hot, althoguh xena was too butch and manly for me. And the greek/roman gods the others are named for are just as fictional., so why not?

Yeah but towards the end of the series, Gabrielle was getting butch, and Xena seemed to be morphing into Rosie O'Donnel.

 

[h4ppy]

Gabrielle was the one I liked more too, the leather just didn't do it for me. Oh, but Callisto on the other hand, HOT!