Name the 10th Planet

[telfrow]

How about <b>Anaximandros</b> after Anaximander (611-547 B.C., Ionian), "a Greek philosopher who made the first detailed maps of the Earth and the sky. He knew that the Earth was round, and believed that it was free-floating and unsupported. He measured its circumference, and was the first to put forward the idea that celestial bodies make full circles in their orbits. One of his greatest contributions was the fact that he was the first to conceptualize space as having depth."<br /><br />http://physics.unr.edu/grad/welser/astro/astronomers.html<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <strong><font color="#3366ff">Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find and not to yeild.</font> - <font color="#3366ff"><em>Tennyson</em></font></strong> </div>

 

[maxtheknife]

I like it, Telfrow.... a lot <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[majornature]

No More Greek Names Please!! How about naming the planet Unix.<br /><br /><br /><font color="purple"><b> My Friend, I'm Not Laughing With You...I'm Laughing At You!!!</b></font>b> Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!!! <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>

 

[CalliArcale]

<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>Planet Sagan<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />Too late: Asteroid 2709 Sagan already got the name. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br />The gal who ate the pomegranet was Persephone. That might be a nice name; it does have a good ring to it. Unfortunately, it's also taken, by 399 Persephone. Someone suggested Hoagland, but that's out; I think there's a rule against naming celestial bodies after living people, so he has to be dead before his name can grace a planet, major or minor.<br /><br />Personally, I'd prefer a major planet to be named after someone fictional or mythological rather than a real person. Others have evidently shared this opinion, which is why we call the seventh planet "Uranus" and not "Georgium Sidus" or "Herschel" (early proposed names for the planet). It would be nice to keep the tradition of names from classical mythology, but with all the minor planets and satellites, we're mainly left with pretty obscure ones with weird names. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[CalliArcale]

<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>No More Greek Names Please!! How about naming the planet Unix. <p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />No! Anything but that! If you name it Unix, SCO will assert copyright over it and try to claim it for their own!<br /><br />I just lookd to see if there was a minor planet Unix, but there isn't. There is, however, 9885 Linux. Other nerdy asteroid names include 3568 ASCII.<br /><br />Oh, and it seems there's a 9793 Torvalds! Either it's not named after Linus Torvalds, or I'm wrong about the rule against living people's names. Interesting. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[arconin]

I suspect JFK will get something, but prolly not this. While he kicked our space program in the but he himself did not do anything. Seems to me that Armstrong or Gagarin should have something named for them before Kennedy. <br /><br />Don't worry, the universe is so vast with so many objects that will need naming Kennedy will get his as well as RCH and ZS and we will eventually run ourt of famous people and places and myths that we will get to the point where we will end up naming them after famous house pets or some such..... <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <br /><br />Planet Benji <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[Philotas]

Never name a planet in our Solar System after a Person! It should be for ancient gods only : )<br /><br />I propose Thor or Odin, gods from Norse mythology. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[Leovinus]

Why do they have to be named after gods? We've outgrown believing in the greek/roman ones. Plus, using greek/roman gods dismisses the 75% of the world that isn't based on greek and roman history. <br /><br />I suggest "Elvis" <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[telfrow]

How about "Nut," the Egyptian sky godess? Short, sweet, to the point and just ripe for bad jokes... <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <strong><font color="#3366ff">Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find and not to yeild.</font> - <font color="#3366ff"><em>Tennyson</em></font></strong> </div>

 

[Philotas]

Well, I think we should name them with from names of gods in ancient mythology until we`re done with this Solar System, simply `cause it`s a tradition. <br />I don`t mind having Elvis in the Alpha Centauri system.<br /><br /><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>Plus, using greek/roman gods dismisses the 75% of the world that isn't based on greek and roman history. <br /> <p><hr /></p></p></blockquote> <br /><br />I didn`t say it had to be greek and roman names; see my proposals.<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[spaceman186000mps]

Ok then .<br /><br />Personally, I think Sagan deserves better than an asteroid named after him. Altho that is an honor. <br />So I suggest Planet Nagas <br />That's Sagan backwards. lol <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>

 

[pocket_rocket]

NASA should take over planet names and sell to the highest bidder. How does Nokia 10th planet sound?

 

[lunatio_gordin]

I say forget asteroid names. they've already got numbers, and most don't have names anyway. well, you can name asteroids after people. I like that better. But for instance, I would steal "Bacchus" from that asteroid and name a planet after it. I like God names for planets, personally <img src="/images/icons/tongue.gif" />

 

[CalliArcale]

I like Minerva. That's got a good ring to it. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[i_i_e]

I think they should stay with Roman God names. Several good ones have been suggested.<br /><br />If not one of them, I like Tycho (as in Tycho Brahe )

 

[Leovinus]

I think it should be something relating to coldness and/or darkness. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[vidar]

Then Pluto it is.<br />http://www.pantheon.org/articles/p/pluto.html

 

[vidar]

There is also a hypothetical red or brown dwarf star orbiting beyond the Oort cloud, called Nemesis. <br /><br />You can read about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_%28star%29.<br /><br />Isaak Asimov has written a sf novel about it.<br />

 

[telfrow]

It has a certain ring to it, doesn't it? <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <strong><font color="#3366ff">Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find and not to yeild.</font> - <font color="#3366ff"><em>Tennyson</em></font></strong> </div>

 

[ather]

Maybe we should name it OCllins, after Mike Collins, who was stuck on Apollo 11 while Neil and Buzz had fun on the moon.<br /><br />Or maybe Apollo, because of all that program did for space.<br /><br />Hoth, because it's probably as cold as Hoth was?<br />

 

[alokmohan]

Why not chose a nam fom Hindu mythology?I suggest Narad a desiciple of supeme god Visnu.He was ever movig ,stayed in a far away place.

 

[thechemist]

Please, anything but Xena. <br />Why would we want to name a planet after a fictional TV character ? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em>I feel better than James Brown.</em> </div>

 

[cyrostir]

what about shortening it to<br /><br />Xen

 

[najab]

Fictional TV character, fictional Roman god...what's the difference?

 

[majornature]

Sorry I didn't know that Unix was a company name But still I favor that the planet should be named Exodus.<br /><br />Isn't the word Exodus originated from Greek?<br /><br /><b> Zochy Coisma Di Thom Pozix Xi!!!</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>