[planetarium lecturer hat on]
Yep. Work’s gonna be interesting tomorrow.
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[sub]Urectum![/sub]
Nibiru… just for us Art Bell fans.
You people are nuts.
It should be named Fernando.
No, because the first probe we send to it will then be called ABBA.
how about Urbungholio?
In the spirit of “Greenland”, I think we should name these new worlds something like “Paradise” and “Eden”. Or maybe “Nova Arabia” and “New Texas”.
(Hey, we gotta jumpstart the space program somehow.)
Put me in charge of NASA, and I can assure you, we’ll end up with a program that beats the crap out of Apollo and comes in on budget (No promises about how many astronauts I’ll kill, though. I will be more than happy to swap places with any astronaut who thinks a mission’s too dangerous.)
The radio announcer today called it “Tenth Rock from the Sun.” I think that’s a good name.
Lemme guess… You’ll have them re-design the space shuttle so that the lights swivel to point in the direction it’s being steered? 
If they follow the tradition of Roman gods, the most likely possibilites are:
Minerva - Goddess of Wisdom
Proserpine - Goddess of the Underworld
Bacchus - God of Wine
Janus - God of Doors or past and future.
Maia - Goddess of Growth
Most likely Proserpine, but I would go for Bacchus; we have to be thankful for the zinfandel… and the orgies, don’t forget the orgies.
When I was in elementary school many decades ago, our science teacher told us that there was another planet beyond Pluto, and it was unofficially named Vulcan.
I really don’t think he was messing with our heads - without any S/T jokes, is there another object out there named Vulcan?
Thanks.
I recall reading that at one time in the 19th century, astronomers though they had discovered another planet in between Mercury and the Sun, and had provisionally named it Vulcan. Vulcan doesn’t make a lot of sense for a planet beyond Pluto, like naming a cat Rover.
Yeah, Vulcan was a hypothetical planet inside the orbit of Mercury that was supposed to account for some anamolies in Mercury’s orbit; turns out general relativity accounts for the anamolies instead.
The anomalies in my ability to spell, on the other hand, are accounted for by quantum mechanics.
:eek: My goodness, was I in elementary school that long ago? 
Seriously, thanks to Raygun and MEBuckner for the speedy answer!
-Wallet-No, they don’t. It’s the same team that has previously discovered and named Sedna, and they got into a lot of trouble for using that name publicly before it was officially accepted. So now they keep the proposed name a secret and use code names instead. Sedna is a name from Inuit mythology, the goddess of the sea, and they will likely use another name from that or another arctic mythology.
Yuggoth. Watch for killer mushrooms…
Peregrine – lat. for “wanderer”
Decum – lat. “tenth”
I agree it should keep with Roman mythology. I’m still irritated over Quaoar (you have 8 planets and Og knows how many satellites named after Roman mythological figures then somebody pulls a Tongva deity out of Theiranus. “One of these things is not like the other…”
I favor Morpheus, either for Laurence Fishburne’s character or the Sandman.