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***Lord Styphon*** · Local time: Aug 16, 2006, 08:26 PM

Originally Posted by Arco-nym

They're using Persephone, Charon, and Ceres. Sure they're mythological figures, but none of them are gods.

What. Ceres is just as much a god as Venus is.

Besides, Ceres has been Ceres for over two hundred years; giving it a new name now would just be silly.

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What about Juno, Minerva, Bacchus, and Vulcan?

Juno already has an asteroid named for her, like Ceres, but it's not quite big enough for anyone to start considering it a planet yet. Minerva also has one, but it's named "Pallas" instead. =p

Jam it back in, in the dark.

***Lord Styphon*** · Local time: Aug 16, 2006, 10:38 PM

It doesn't because the Star Trek classification of planets is really arbitrary when it comes to assigning things; just pick a letter and go. Scientists like things a little more precise than that.

It would also be really lame.

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***Lord Styphon*** · Local time: Aug 17, 2006, 03:35 PM

Originally Posted by Acro-nym

What does a planet being bright and gold have to do with it being called Venus. Is it a correlation with beauty?

Considering the other names it has been given by other peoples, and how many of them relate to beauty, it's a reasonable conclusion.

Also, it's Cupid who is the symbol of Valentine's Day, not Venus. Venus was actually an important goddess; besides being one of the 12 Olympians in Greek tradition, the Aeneid makes her as the ancestor of the Roman people. Which says something of the political situation, as Venus was also the ancestor of gens Julia.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

***Lord Styphon*** · Local time: Aug 22, 2006, 07:48 PM

Originally Posted by XSO

I will still never forgive them for naming a planet after Xena.

Except they didn't.

Originally Posted by Michael Brown

About the name: The real name of the new planet is currently in limbo while committees decide its fate. For those speculating that the name will be "Lila" based on the web site name I must warn you that that is really just a sentimental dad's early-morning-after-no-sleep naming of a web site for his (at the time) three week old daughter and one should not take it too seriously! In fact, the sentimental dad was so tired he even spelled his own daughter's name wrong (it is "Lilah"). The name "Xena" is frequently heard associated with this planet; this name comes from an internal cod name that we used before we publically announced the existence of the planet. Other code names have been "Santa" (2003 EL61), "Rudolph" (the moon of 2003 EL61), "Easterbunny" (2005 FY9) and "Flying Dutchman" (Sedna), and "Gabrielle" (the moon of 2003 UB313). We use these names internally simply because they are easier to say and remember than things like 2003 EL61 or S/2005 (2003 UB313) 1 . There is no chance whatsoever that these will become the permanent names of these objects! As soon as the committees make their decisions these objects will get real names. When we first announced the existence of these objects we thought that the real names would be decided in days to weeks, not months to years so it never occured to us that these code names would last more than a few days. We hope the committees decide soon so people can start getting used to the real more dignified names soon!

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