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[labellementeuse]

OH OH ITEM OF COOLNESS:

Tenth Planet Discovered!

That is kind of cool. Although, you know, if Pluto is 40AU out and Planet X is 97 AU* out, is that a planet or just a supah-large Oort Cloud object? How far out is the Oort Cloud anyway?

Okay, Wikipedia Says 50,000-100,000 AU out. Which, dude, is a long way to travel for long-period comets, I never really thought about that before. Anyway. So I guess not a supermassive Oort cloud object. And it's bigger than Kuiper belt objects because they think it's bigger than Pluto which kind of sits on the fine line- some people think it's a planet, some people think it's a big Kuiper belt object.

Um, anyway. Yay, new planet? I don't really have an appropriate icon for this...

*1 AU=Astronomical Unit= distance from Earth to Sun

Comments

Re: Well...

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

What do you think they're going to call it?

As a classics student I'd suggest... Um...

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

Bacchus.

It's about time he got some cosmic recognition.

Failing that, Apollo was a big news god. Though then the moon missions could get confusing. Diana?

Perhaps these more distant objects should have demi-god names? Theseus? Perseus? Hercules?

Re: As a classics student I'd suggest... Um...

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

*snickering*

Ooh, I like Perseus, actually. But isn't that the wrong mythology? Jupiter, etc are all Roman, so that's where I'd be looking, if I were you.

Re: As a classics student I'd suggest... Um...

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

*omg unobservant* it's Le Petit Prince!

Re: As a classics student I'd suggest... Um...

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

OMG it is too, like, wow?

:P

I second your vote for Bnumber.

Re: As a classics student I'd suggest... Um...

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

(I vote that they call it B612.)

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

The whole Roman/Greek mythos is getting more and more blurred as I go deeper down the rabbit hole.

Basically, the Romans didn't use Heroes as divine subjects really. They had plenty of personifications but that doesn't seem right either. But Hercules? Is spelled Herakles by the Greeks, so the other way is the Latin version. See what I mean?

Most of the big name Gods are gone except for Bacchus, Apollo, Diana, Ceres (actually, isn't that something else in space?), Minerva.

Hey Minerva might be good.

But all the other planets have REASONS they are a particular Gods name whereas anything at this poiint is kinda random. Maybe once they find out some more about Bnumber we can go mythological.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

I'm aware that all the gods are basically the same. But existing planet names use the Roman names, don't they? Mercury not Hermes, Mars not Ares, Venus not Aphrodite, Jupiter not Zeus, Neptune not Poseidon, Pluto instead of Hades, Uranus not Ouranos, and Saturn not... whatever Saturn's counterpart is. Wiki says Chronos.

Minerva would be a cool one. I sort of think it's a shame Hermes/Mercuruy's been taken because that's definitely a wanderer, or far from home or whatever... In that vein, I like Aeneas or Odysseus, come to think of it. ;)

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

Actually, what I'm finding now is that the Gods could be quite different at favious stages. It's all very interesting really.

Um.. What do you mean about the Roman names thing? I was saying that the demigods were taken somewhat into Roman culture, though definately not as much as otehr ideas. Hence Herakles to Hercules. Leaving hErcules as an appropriate name. Or at least within pattern.

Actually Aeneas isn't bad, although there's a sense of origin to that. Ullyses is the Latin of Oddyseus, so it would have to be that really.