A New Planet

A new planet. This was known to be comming. And it's here now. Somethings tells me that NASA is not doing much resarch right now. XD
 
BUt since there is also controversy on whether or not pluto should really be considered a planet(many scientists dont see pluto as a planet because it is a giant iceball, similar to many other ice balls found not orbiting the sun.), what if they decide pluto isnt a planet, and then this one is, but its farther out that Pluto?..... Wow, ive confused myself.(that dont take much XD)
 
Dizzy, it couldn't be named Odysseus/Ulysses because planets are named after roman gods, not just roman mythological characters in general ^_^ I don't know enough of the roman equivalents of the greek gods to think of a good name. Ulysses would be a perfect name if they didn't work it that way, in my opinion ^_^ (I also like Prometheus, but it's greek <_<; )

As for Pluto being a planet, it's definitely not a meteor, meteorite, or asteroid as we generally imagine an asteroid, so I've always thought that it's closest in nature to a planet, even if originally it wasn't originally a planet and technically doesn't fill every requirement. And it has a moon named Charon (pronounced Kar-on), which is darned cool. Charon ferried the boat of the dead across the river Styx <_<;
 
Chairman, you do know that we have no idea what you just said, don't you (about mythology and all that)? i always thought of Pluto as a planet, and since it has a name, it would be kinda hard to prove it isn't a planet. after all, like CK said, it does have a moon.

Charon is an awesome name, though.
 
I suppose nobody will understand that, DP XD Let me break it down--

All planets are named after the various roman gods and goddesses, which are copied off of the more popular greek names, for instance:

Mercury-Roman equivalent of Hermes, the messenger god
Venus-Roman equivalent of Aphrodite, goddess of love
Mars-Roman equivalent of Ares, god of war
Jupiter-Roman equivalent of Zeus, god of gods
Saturn-Roman equivalent of Cronos, titan and father of Zeus
Uranus-Roman equivalent of ?????, father of the titans
Neptune, Roman equivalent of Poseidon, god of the oceans
Pluto, Roman equivalent of Hades, god of the underworld

But what I was trying to say is that Ulysses can't be a planet name because he is a mortal and not a god of mythology; he was the one who claimed to be invincible after the trojan war and was thus sent on a multi-decade wandering through peril by the gods.
 
Chairman Kaga said:
Dizzy, it couldn't be named Odysseus/Ulysses because planets are named after roman gods, not just roman mythological characters in general ^_^ I don't know enough of the roman equivalents of the greek gods to think of a good name. Ulysses would be a perfect name if they didn't work it that way, in my opinion ^_^ (I also like Prometheus, but it's greek <_<; )

As for Pluto being a planet, it's definitely not a meteor, meteorite, or asteroid as we generally imagine an asteroid, so I've always thought that it's closest in nature to a planet, even if originally it wasn't originally a planet and technically doesn't fill every requirement. And it has a moon named Charon (pronounced Kar-on), which is darned cool. Charon ferried the boat of the dead across the river Styx <_<;
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Duhh I'm aware of that. I'm definately not an idiot :). I love to study mythology.

But most of the good names have been taken, like Ceres and Pallas, for asteroids. Also, Charon, surprisingly isn't pronounced like that. I saw an article about it on Wikipedia. :) It's prounounced Shah-ron.
 
Wow buddy, quadruple post there?

They should name it _____________?
 
My school teaches me everything wrong...I thought it was Sha-ron, but my teachers said differently ;______;

If it were to be named, I would name the new planet Minerva, as that was the Roman goddess of Wisdom, Learning, the Arts, Sciences, Medicine, Dyeing, Trade, and of War, and it has taken us all our science and technology to discover this planet...not as a tribute to her, just as a tribute to what man can achieve <_<;
 
I thought it was Charon until my father told me that couldn't be, because CH as in K only works on soft vowels (E and I). Plus it's Greek, so Kappa would definately be used.
 
*nods* Well you're definitely much more multi-lingustically-oriented than I am, so I don't doubt you. Thanks for clearing that up.
 
I know, It dosn't exsacty fit along with the others... x.x
 
Xena? No, that's the single stupidest name for a planet I've ever heard of, lmao. I'm pretty sure they'll change it though. Uranus was the planet "Herschel" until a certain point where it just didnt fit in with the others.
 
Come on, there's no way the scientific community is going to accept that name...at least, I hope =/ I wonder how much money Lucy Lawless had to slip in their pockets to get that done...
 
They aren't o.O All that it said was that's the name that those few men want it to have, it's probably not going to be the name...and I don't even see why this is a planet, it's barely larger than Pluto and even still, does it have a moon? Senda didn't and that's what got it thrown out.
 
Chairman Kaga said:
Come on, there's no way the scientific community is going to accept that name...at least, I hope =/ I wonder how much money Lucy Lawless had to slip in their pockets to get that done...
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I hate it, they better take that awful name back.
 
I think they should learn more about the planet, and find some unique characteristics of it before they name it something stupid! I mean, come on, how much do we even know about this planet? Is it solid or gad? water or ice? life or no?(lets hope not)
 
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