I'd go for LV-426 (alien)

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But most probably Sedna

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My guess is actually: Vulcan!

And I thought you were getting pressure from the High Council again.

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My guess is actually: Vulcan!

And I thought you were getting pressure from the High Council again.

Not at all! :-D I think I'm way too autonome to be pressured from any High Councils anywhere!

No, really, Vulcan has been mentioned different places also in astrology, but as I read, they call it Sedna and need to have the name confirmed. Unless something else come up.

Vulcan, or Hefaistos, was the god of fire, and he was married to Afrodite, or Venus. His name should rather be used for a planet within Mercury's course, so Sedna should be a better name.

Sedna, the Inuit goddess of the sea (ice sea, per se!) would be a good representative of this planet, as it must be really cold out there!

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

My guess is actually: Vulcan!

And I thought you were getting pressure from the High Council again.

Not at all! :-D I think I'm way too autonome to be pressured from any High Councils anywhere!

No, really, Vulcan has been mentioned different places also in astrology, but as I read, they call it Sedna and need to have the name confirmed. Unless something else come up.

Vulcan, or Hefaistos, was the god of fire, and he was married to Afrodite, or Venus. His name should rather be used for a planet within Mercury's course, so Sedna should be a better name.

Sedna, the Inuit goddess of the sea (ice sea, per se!) would be a good representative of this planet, as it must be really cold out there!

The name Sedna is already assigned to an object.

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Alright, let's name the planet something really unique:

<p align="center">Siran t' T'Khasi</p>

>:-) I can hear the minus clicks already.... >;-)

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The name Sedna is already assigned to an object.

Oh, I wasn't aware it wasn't the same object! My bad!

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For Fuzzy, from the thread in the Science forums: All the other planetoids and their names.

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Wonder when they'll start the contest to name the 10th planet.........

I think

Scotty

is the right Name

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Greetings from Germany NRW
Ulli

Hi
im new to seti .. and had to comment on this subject.
i have been watching the stars now for almost 20 years(i started when i was 8)
and i am a member of many telescope news groups..one of of them being telescopes.com..

any-hooo , they sent me a email last week and this is what it said:-

Astronomers have discovered what many are calling our solar systems 10th planet.its reportedly to be called Xena,and its discovery is the first of a planet since pluto was found 75 years ago

Xena - named after the protagonist of the tv series "Xena,warrior princess"--is an object whose size hasn't been precisely determined ,but it could range up to about 1.5 times the size of Pluto.That makes it a frozen world perhaps a little smaller than our moon,but one much farther away.

For now, the new world is officially dubbed 2003 UB313. The international astronomical union will have to rule on any less-esoteric designation

By any name, however, it's a truly significant find. its the largest nonstellar object now known to exist beyond the orbit of Neptune. And , at roughly 67 Astronomical units(a.u.: one A.U equals the earth's distence from the sun, about 93 million miles)it's also the most distant

First imaged by Caltech astonomers in 2003 - hence the 2003 in its temporary moniker - it wasn't recognized as part of the solar system till later. Then scientists compared images taken of the region over time and noticed that UB313 appeared to move against the stellar field. That motion indicated that UB313 was not a distant star but an object orbiting the sun. And the investigation began.

Official announcement of its discovery was made July 29 by discoverers Michael B Brown of Caltech.Chad Trujnillo of Gemini Observatory and David Rabinowits of Yale University. It was somewhat premature and was prompted by a hack of a secure web site on which the data and images were kept . the hacker had threatened to make the discovery public, but the discoverers were first out of the gate.

The disclosure on UB313 came just hours after an announcement that another team had discovered a smaller world beyond neptune that was somewhat smaller than Pluto.

UB313 is in higly elliptical orbit inclined about 45 degees from the main plane of our solar system. Currently it's near aphelion(farthest distance from the sun) at 9 billion miles from the center of the solar system. It gets as close to the sun as 38 A.U ., or some 3.5 billion miles,during a 557-year orbit.

By contrast , pluto mean distance from the sun is just 39 A.U., or 3.6 billion miles, and its orbits in just 248.5 years.

The new world is thought to be about 2.100 miles in diameter, roughly 1.5 times as Pluto. Near-infra-red spectrometry indicates that, like Pluto, it has methane ice on its surface.

"Xena" has not been discovered unntill now , because no one had thought to look in a orbit so far removed from those of most planets.


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well , what do you think..for those of you in the uk , patric moore (god bless him) was just talking about it and he refured to it as Xena to...and if patrick calling it xena ,you know its true..

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Seems all the good name suggestions have been taken. I rather liked LV-426 myself. Or Hoth. Since I don't know that much about Roman mythology and can't offer a name in that vein, I'll just have to settle for offering "Planet Bob" (Titan AE).

According to what I've read, the name they've submitted follows the conventional practice of selecting the name of a god of creation or the underworld but expands the pool to include new sources for names. This suggests to me the possibility the name may come from a work of fiction.

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