Name the 10th Planet

[jindivik]

if this new planet is 3x further from the sun than pluto, does this make it further away than the Voyager & Pioneer spacecraft?

 

[Grok]

Planet Grok

 

[hansolo0]

I say ISIS (ice - sis)

 

[aerogi]

I'd go for the Greek god Hades...

 

[jcdenton]

At the beginning of this year, Voyager 1 was 94 AU away from the Sun (roughly 14 billion km). Pluto's mean orbital distance is 5.9 billion km, which puts this planet's distance from the Sun at 17.7 billion km, so depending on whether the estimates made by the guys at Caltech are accurate enough, yes it's beyond any deep space probes. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[yevaud]

Planet Claire. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[bobvanx]

My wife, Xena, is of course amused and bemused by all this. <i>I</i> did get a fictional planet named after me, Planet Bob, but she might have an real planet (Kuiper belt object, whatever...)<br /><br />She is a bringer of controversy, an enigmatic force, follows her own eccentric orbit, and icy if you get her riled. So the name fits, from where I'm sittin.'

 

[dragon04]

I'd vote to name it Sagan. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em>"2012.. Year of the Dragon!! Get on the Dragon Wagon!".</em> </div>

 

[dragon04]

I heard that the Rock Lobster is indigenous to planet Claire.<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em>"2012.. Year of the Dragon!! Get on the Dragon Wagon!".</em> </div>

 

[majornature]

I think it should be called Planet Exodus since it is cold and dark. <br /><br /><br /><b><font color="black"> True Knowledge Exists in Knowing That You Know</font>/b> <b>NOTHING!!!!!</b></b> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="2" color="#14ea50"><strong><font size="1">We are born.  We live.  We experiment.  We rot.  We die.  and the whole process starts all over again!  Imagine That!</font><br /><br /><br /><img id="6e5c6b4c-0657-47dd-9476-1fbb47938264" style="width:176px;height:247px" src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/14/4/6e5c6b4c-0657-47dd-9476-1fbb47938264.Large.jpg" alt="blog post photo" width="276" height="440" /><br /></strong></font> </div>

 

[meteoropt]

I heard it's going to be named Xena...It's one of the rumours<br /><br />Paulo Heleno<br />Editor "Rastos de Luz"<br />http://rastosdeluz.blogspot.com

 

[samthefox]

The proposed ideas for the name of the tenth planet are all well and good. But I would like to employ this new opportunity to invoke true SOCIAL CHANGE. <br /><br />Consider for a moment PLANET &%$#@!. (The F Word. Had to specify because of this lovely censor.) Some of you have dismissed me already, and getting your panties in a twist because you think this word will send you directly to the lake of fire. The truth is, no grouping of syllables can do such a thing. <br /><br />In its current state, the word &%$#@! evokes that dirty, dirty idea of SEX. The tenth planet would be named under the guise of commemorating procreation, the act that has kept the species of Earth alive. All the censorship fanatics busying about the airwaves with their whitewash would be slapped in the face with the fact that IT'S A PLANET NOW; nothing could be done about it. <br /><br />What would uptight mothers tell their children? "I don't wan't you saying the name of that evil planet!" I thought we were supposed to know the names of all the planets. You might forget the order of Saturn or Neptune, but Planet &%$#@! comes unmistakably at the end. And in terms of evil .. Pluto was the Lord of the Underwold to countless Greeks. It'd be like us naming a planet Satan or Hitler. It's literally a hell of a lot worse than sex. <br /><br />Name the tenth planet &%$#@! and a long-standing and pointless taboo is lifted permanently. Wars are fought over petty matters like words. This will show that no great evil comes out of words which we spend undue effort to sterilize out of our system. People, this is one of the simplest opportunities we can seize in the name of PROGRESS. Name the tenth planet &%$#@!, and everyone here on the third planet will lighten the &%$#@! up. <br /><br />

 

[ather]

I just been calling it 10thie. Let's see, they won't name it after me (meanies), so, let's follow ALF, and call it Dave. And then we can try and find Alvin.<br /><br />We can call it that girl who was abducted by Pluto, and ate the Pommegranite and her mom caused winter, and now she spedns half a year in Hades. Perspospherone or such. I'm very lousy with foreign names. It's all Greek to me.<br /><br />we got to save Vulcan for Epsilon eirdian's first Earth like Planet, naturally, so, we need cold associated names. Like Drake, after Bobby Drake, the X-Men's Iceman.

 

[najab]

Err....no.

 

[exoscientist]

Most of you are probably most familiar with the name as the character who was the friend of Hercules on the TV show that starred Kevin Sorbo as Hercules. But Aeolus is the name of a god in Greek mythology, the god of the winds: <br /><br />Aeolus. <br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolus <br /><br />The name does not appear in this list of names of minor planets: <br /><br />Minor Planet Names: Alphabetical List. <br />http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/MPNames.html <br /><br />However the close name "Aeolia" does appear on it. Worse is that Aeolia was the name of the island on which Aeolus lived. <br />If Aeolus is used, then if it has a moon, the names of two of the children of Aeolus are not used according to the IAU list, Notus and Eurus. <br /><br /><br /> Bob Clark <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[age234]

I don't know. I hope they don't name it X or Xena. Seems silly to name it after something as inconsequential as a TV show.<br /><br />I like a lot of the other suggestions, though. I say they continue with the Greek/Roman gods' names.<br /><br />My 2¢.

 

[maxtheknife]

Lol, since that's out there, let me put in a vote for Hoagland, R.C.<br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[arconin]

if they dont name it after Xena they are certainly not going to name it after RCH.<br /><br />Personally I am all for naming it after someone from Greek mythos. I like that convention and would like to see it continued.

 

[maxtheknife]

Greek mythos.... ok <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br />How about..... Zacharia? As in Sitchen? <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[Leovinus]

Aren't they going to name it after Reagan? <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[jcdenton]

I don't think the <b>International</b> Astronomical Union would like that. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[chew_on_this]

Gipper?

 

[spaceman186000mps]

Of all the names I've read, I like Sagan best.<br /><br />He was definitely a great influence on most astronomers<br /><br />Planet Sagan ( Kuiper belt planet ) <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong><font size="2" color="#3366ff">70 percent of novel proceeds </font></strong><strong><font size="2" color="#3366ff">www.trafford.com/06-1593</font></strong><strong><font size="2" color="#3366ff"> are donated to </font></strong><strong><font size="2" color="#3366ff">www.caringbridge.org</font></strong></p> </div>

 

[arconin]

don't think they will name it after Zacharia Sitchen either <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <br /><br />I could totally support Sagan, I know it goes contrary to my earlier post about greek mythos, but im flexible.<br /><br />The gipper?...hmmmm <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" />

 

[maxtheknife]

In all seriousness.... How about JFK?<br /><br />Seems appropriate that <i>something</i> up there be named after him.