# New Planet **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 12, 2001, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-planet/87012 "2001-10-12T10:57:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Firx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Firx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Firx)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-planet/87012/21 "2001-10-12T17:35:12Z")
The movie, **mrblue92** is _Fight Club_\*. Now, what’s wrong with “The Wild, Spunky, Chunky Planet of Mary-Lou Rhetton Clones”? ---
**Author:** ![Firx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Firx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Firx)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-planet/87012/22 "2001-10-12T17:37:51Z")
Blast! ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-planet/87012/23 "2001-10-12T17:45:05Z")
A toss-up between “Not My” and “Someone Else’s.” That way people can be star-gazing and point to it going, “Look, there’s Someone Else’s planet!” or “Oh, that one over there is Not My planet.” Hmm, perhaps “Somewhere Else” would work, too. That way, people could ask “So, where are you from?” and you could simply say “Somewhere Else.” ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-planet/87012/24 "2001-10-12T17:58:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Firx \* > **The movie, mrblue92 is _Fight Club_**. We have a winner! Perhaps we need to do the opposite as well… names you should never give your planet. Like Planet Anthrax. ---
**Author:** ![Ferggie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@Ferggie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferggie)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-planet/87012/25 "2001-10-12T18:13:35Z")
Dammit, Janet, name that planet! (What, that’s _not_ a line from Rocky Horror?) There’s already a “Disney” world. Pluto. Hm, what would I name a planet…I’d probably make a shift from Greek to Egyptian and name it Nut, after the godess of the sky. There’s a place in my one-and-only sci-fi story called the Cafe Asteroid. It even has its own radio jingle. _Every boy, girl and droid Is welcome at the Cafe Asteroid For a snack or a square meal Chef cooks up a real square deal Open 29 hours a day Conveniently located in the Milky Way You haven’t lived 'til you’ve enjoyed Dining at the Cafe Asteroid!_ ---
**Author:** ![Oicu812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f475e1/32.png) [@Oicu812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oicu812)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2001, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-planet/87012/26 "2001-10-12T19:05:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Firx \* > \*_The movie, **mrblue92** is Fight Club_. > > Now, what’s wrong with “The Wild, Spunky, Chunky Planet of Mary-Lou Rhetton Clones”? \*\* Aaaaaaah. Good old Opus, and Cutter John. My favorite of all time. This one gets MY vote… O ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-planet/87012/27 "2001-10-13T01:14:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rayniday \* > **Planets are typically named after Roman gods, guys!** But Bob is the Roman god of fellatio! (at least he is in the books I have) ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-planet/87012/28 "2001-10-13T03:05:51Z")
I’d opt for _Earth 2: Electric Boogaloo_. ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-planet/87012/29 "2001-10-13T05:58:16Z")
just plain earth[sub]2[/sub] we can have burrowing sentient humanoids on there, and maybe even a bad sci-fi plot! well, actually… dionysius/ Pan gets my vote; wine and orgies…mmm. actually, i’d prefer Planet Pan. for why, think of how he’s different from dionysius, and then remember that i am a pervert… yep, that’s (probably, you might be more of a sicko than i am) why. ---
**Author:** ![Janet\_O](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Janet\_O](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Janet_O)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-planet/87012/30 "2001-10-13T06:08:50Z")
Well it looks like everyone who’s going to post has done so. It was a pretty good thread. Some well thought out names, some very clever posts, and alas a few turkeys. (you know who you are) However, as good as some ideas were, no one has come close to the perfect name for a new planet. I hereby christen the next planet to be discovered… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ ASIMOV ~ Now how can anyone argue with that? ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-planet/87012/31 "2001-10-13T06:14:02Z")
well, you could… ahhhh… welllll… damn. asimov it is. ---
**Author:** ![Cap\_n\_Crude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Cap\_n\_Crude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cap_n_Crude)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-planet/87012/32 "2001-10-13T06:31:32Z")
[nitpick]If we’re talking Roman gods, you’d need to name the planet Bacchus, not Dionysius.[/nitpick] **Legomancer,** Planet Claire? She said she came from there? How about: Planet Oid Planet Erry Planet Ation (Agricultural worlds only) Wayne’s World The Ghost Planet **Thinksnow,** why not go all the way and call the planet Fuckyou? “So where are you from?” “Fuckyou.” ---
**Author:** ![Anubis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Anubis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anubis)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-planet/87012/33 "2001-10-13T13:27:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crunchy Frog \* > \*\*Planet Bob. Can’t go wrong with Bob. > > For something slightly more dangerous sounding I’d go with Planet Evil Bob. > > \*\* Hey! I used to be called **bobevilsquid**! I wouldn’t mind having a planet named after me… Lookit me sig! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bad_Astronomer)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-planet/87012/34 "2001-10-13T22:59:19Z")
\ You mean another planet in our solar system? We’d have to define what a planet is, I think, first. But assuming we do, and it’s a nice big one out there, it would probably be named Persephone. According to myth, she spends half a year in Hades with Pluto, who tricked her into eating 6 pomegranet seeds (yummy). If it’s a planet in another solar system, it’s named after the star. Not terribly exotic. I apologize on behalf of the astronomicla community. \ ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-planet/87012/35 "2001-10-13T23:28:51Z")
> [@](#): > > But assuming we do, and it’s a nice big one out there, it would probably be named Persephone. Works for me. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-planet/87012.md?page=1)