Tenth Planet Has A Moon

[The Yankee]

Figures...things in space are hardly in small distances. For some reason I thought the border was much closer. Well...hooray for us, we conquered it!

 

[Perfection]

Figures...things in space are hardly in small distances. For some reason I thought the border was much closer. Well...hooray for us, we conquered it!

You can't say it's conquered unless we've established oil derricks there

 

[Riesstiu IV]

I still say the planet should be called Persephone (Proserpina is the Roman version). In Greek tradition she was the wife of Hades (Pluto).

 

[Perfection]

I still say the planet should be called Persephone (Proserpina is the Roman version). In Greek tradition she was the wife of Hades (Pluto).

The solar system already has a Persephone (It's an asteroid)

 

[Riesstiu IV]

Alright then, destroy the asteroid with a nuclear warhead to free up the name.

 

[Perfection]

Alright then, destroy the asteroid with a nuclear warhead to free up the name.

Do you know how dang difficult it would be? Better to just realise it's not a planet, then you can use whatever crazy-ass name you want!

 

[Tee Kay]

If it becomes a planet (which i doubt it will, even if it have a moon, is larger than Pluto, since the widely accepted view is that the ss have 9 planets and no more and people can't stand the fact that their traditional belief's obsolete) it should be call Minerva. It was a name suggested for Pluto but not used.

 

[Winner]

Ceres is already being used; one of the asteroids. Europa is one of Saturn's moons.

Actually, I believe it is one of the Jupiter's moons

 

[Winner]

BTW the thread title is wrong, it is not a planet, it is just a big piece of ice in the outer edge of the Solar system. Just like the Pluto, which isn't a true planet anyway

 

[Esckey]

In the morning I'll dig up my books and pull out the stuff that defines a planet but for now I'll side with the people that think its got to crummy of a name to be classified as a planet. I don't want my kids learning about how Jupiter was the leader of the Gods, and Mars was the God of War, and Xena was......some TV character.

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.

 

[The Last Conformist]

2700 km is not a major body in the solar system. It's not much more than half the diameter of Ganymede.

Personally, I think Pluto should be kicked out of the planetary ranks, and the label "planet" restricted to the jovians and terrestrials.

Still, it's a cool discovery.

 

[IglooDame]

In the morning I'll dig up my books and pull out the stuff that defines a planet but for now I'll side with the people that think its got to crummy of a name to be classified as a planet. I don't want my kids learning about how Jupiter was the leader of the Gods, and Mars was the God of War, and Xena was......some TV character.

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.

So you want to name it Hercules, then? Not a god, but a mythical legend. We could rename Pluto to another human-of-mythical-lore, maybe Sisyphus or Promethius. Or go straight for the zinger and name it Trivia.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Prometheus is already the name of one of Saturn's moons.

Other trans-Neptunians have been given names out of non-Classical mythologies, such as Sedna and Quaoar. Seems likely the offficial name of "Xena" will be chosen from a similar source.

 

[Ultima Dragoon]

Nemesis.

Cool names for planets include:
Aesir
Asgard
Vvardenfel
Cadia
Gaia
Terra

More to come, I'll edit my post when I think of more.

 

[IglooDame]

Prometheus is already the name of one of Saturn's moons.

Other trans-Neptunians have been given names out of non-Classical mythologies, such as Sedna and Quaoar. Seems likely the offficial name of "Xena" will be chosen from a similar source.

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

 

[IglooDame]

Nemesis.

Cool names for planets include:
Aesir
Asgard
Vvardenfel
Cadia
Gaia
Terra

More to come, I'll edit my post when I think of more.

Well, Terra is out, or we'd have to redo a lot of science fiction that refers to pink-skin Earthers as Terrans.

 

[Zany]

The Greek or Roman thing:

Ceres is Roman, Demeter is Greek, they are the same goddess
Vulcan is Roman, Hephaestus is Greek,, again the Romans ripped-off the Greeks
And come on, all of the planet names are the Roman versions of the name!:
Mercury - Hermes
Venus - Aphrodite
Mars - Ares
Jupiter - Zeus
Saturn - Chronos (though the Romans changed some of the story to this god)
Neptune - Poseidon
Uranus - Oranos (This is sort of splitting hairs, linguistically, as the names are basically the same)
Pluto - Hades

I suggest the following names for planet X: Hypnos (come on, the god of dreams, it's almost too awesome) Janus (he can see forward and backward in time at all times, as the planet can see the sun as a fairly bright star off in the distance and probably can see Alpha Centauri fairly well at time), Atlas (he holds up the sky, so planet X might hold the solar system in place, or something, I just like the name so back off), and Nemesis (thanks for reminding me Ultima Dragoon).

We are sort of running out of names here. The moons of Uranus are named after characters from a Midsummer Night's Dream. All of the big names have been used on planets in our own solar system while superclusters are being given insigificant names of minor cameo roles in various Greco-Roman myths. 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.

 

[Leonel]

I think the Tenth planet should be called...


Pluto 2; The Sequel

 

[Gogf]

The problem is that, it was never defined clearly defined what is a planet, untill pluto it wasnt necesary. And since pluto is considered a planet almost any mass with a measurable gravitational pull that orbits the sun is going to be a planet. I say It is only a planet if it has atmosphere, (Mercury and mars do have thin atmospheres, does pluto?)

There are a lot of good possible definitions:

-Has an atmosphere.
-Made round by gravity.
-Has a certain volume or mass.
-Is bigger than our moon.

 

[IglooDame]

How about "Sol-10"?