Dwarf Planet Eris, formerly known as 'Xena' |
Dwarf Planet Eris, formerly known as 'Xena' |
Sep 13 2006, 10:59 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 531 Joined: 24-August 05 Member No.: 471 |
Here's the official name of the 'Xena' ...
Eris: 'Xena' (2003 UB313, 136199) Eris I or Dysnomia: 'Gabrielle' -------------------- - blue_scape / Nico -
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Sep 14 2006, 11:53 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1887 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110 |
Nice name, the group responsible for approving names must have a sense of humor. Who would have expected that.
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Sep 15 2006, 02:01 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Nice name, the group responsible for approving names must have a sense of humor. Who would have expected that. Both I and my roommate are pagan -- he's a Druid and I'm a Wiccan -- and when we heard the names they chose for 'Xena' and 'Gabrielle,' we were floored! I mean, there are certain groups who refuse to even speak those names (or the names of similar gods of discord and mischief from other pantheons), as just their mere mention, it is thought, can invite that discordant energy into one's life... It's sort of like going into the Harry Potter universe and naming a new planet 'Voldemort,' if you know what I mean. However, as a jibe at the discord that the current "debate" has engendered in the astronomical community, I think they're absolutely perfect! -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Sep 15 2006, 03:53 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1582 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
It's sort of like going into the Harry Potter universe and naming a new planet 'Voldemort,' if you know what I mean. So you've got me searching the minor planet names list: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/MPNames.html There is a "(1930) Lucifer." There must be some others in there. Actually, I'm surprised by the dearth of "evil" names. I'd love to name some asteroids War, Famine, Pestilence and Death. |
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Sep 15 2006, 05:09 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
So you've got me searching the minor planet names list: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/MPNames.html There is a "(1930) Lucifer." There must be some others in there. Actually, I'm surprised by the dearth of "evil" names. I'd love to name some asteroids War, Famine, Pestilence and Death. I've heard that Mars has two moons with names like that.... -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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