Uranus is Greek, IIRC…
Sorry, but this is clearly a Liberalization of the rules, so we have to fault the left-wing crazies instead. 
Are you saying I engage in the Greek Vice? only with women…
Aw, man, I can’t decide.
Driving home tonight, I thought about the idea that the proposed definition makes sense not only for our Solar System, but for the other solar systems out there. The six-tiered scheme I figured on above is rather chauvinistic, really. None of the other planetary systems astronomers have discovered look much like our own, and there’s no reason to assume they’ll have analogous structures like our asteroid belt, Kuiper belt inner stony planets and outer gaseous one (in fact, I think that’s quite ruled out for at least some of them). Of course they wouldn’t look like home, given current technology, but what we’re able to observe so far reveals a pretty astonishing diversity. Maybe this proposed definition really is the only one what will work in the long run, and we may as well bite the bullet now.
But, boy, if I have kids, they’re going to have a heck of a time learning all the planets. It’ll be as bad as memorizing the periodic table!
Sorry, “outer gaseous ones”…
I just hope they won’t actually name the new planet “Xena.”
Well, OK, then. “Buffy”. Happy now?
No. It’s gotta be an actual Greek/Roman god.
Being that we are dealing with wacky planets, I think the name does fit, I’m not going to lose sleep if that is the name it gets (It would be a hoot and in a way a recognition that there is a modern world mythology (fictional of course, but one has to remember that many famous tales of the gods were made by latter popular writers that did not come from the era the myths originated).
If Roman gods are the only option, I do think it is time Baccus gets the recognition he deserves, (and the moon of Baccus should be called Priapus)
Aren’t they all taken by now?
Could we stretch that to include ‘Scylla’?
Whoops, that link was for Priapus, here is Dionysus-Bacchus
Monsters are not gods.
I believe the Simpsons said it best. People don’t want planets named after hungry Greek broads.
I for one support this vital expansion of our Solarian planets. Other star systems are displaying increasingly large numbers of alien planets. We cannot allow our Solar System to fall behind. A dangerous planet gap could form between our own Solar System and other, potentially hostile nearby star systems.
General Turgidson: We cannot allow a planet gap!
Personally, I’m against designating new planets. It doesn’t bode well.
1.) Hey! What happened to Sedna? Nobody’s mentioned that one. Or is “Xena” Sedna?
2.) Xena?! Xena???!!! Hey, Sedna has a mythological name. They didn’t let Herschel get away with calling Uranus “George”, and they shouldn’t let this guy get away with “Xena”. If they do, I’m going on an all-out effort to find a new planet just so I can name it “Mrifk”
**12 Planets and Counting: Meet the New Solar System **
Same as the old Solar System.
Won’t Get Fooled Again!
No, calm down, that was a tongue-in-cheek place-holder name, sort of like “hobbit” for the Homo floresiensis fossil. The real risk is that the non-science media will pick up on it and begin spreading it and then folks will start believing it’s official.
I think it’s getting to be too late. If they don’t pick a “real” name pretty soon, no-one will ever call it anything but Xena.