# What should we call the new ninth planet? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 20, 2016, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-we-call-the-new-ninth-planet/743710 "2016-01-20T21:59:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-we-call-the-new-ninth-planet/743710/21 "2016-01-21T00:15:07Z")
Latecomer ---
**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-we-call-the-new-ninth-planet/743710/22 "2016-01-21T00:15:30Z")
Supearth ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-we-call-the-new-ninth-planet/743710/23 "2016-01-21T01:02:42Z")
Bob ! ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-we-call-the-new-ninth-planet/743710/24 "2016-01-21T01:15:25Z")
Frodo! what? ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-we-call-the-new-ninth-planet/743710/25 "2016-01-21T01:17:48Z")
Balon Its the second thing that Starblazers got right. Declan ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-we-call-the-new-ninth-planet/743710/26 "2016-01-21T01:21:50Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > New Pluto. PluTwo? > [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Bob ! And thus a new and scientific version of the drinking game can begin. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-we-call-the-new-ninth-planet/743710/27 "2016-01-21T01:26:43Z")
Delia Because she was always distant and cold. ---
**Author:** ![T.M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ad7895/32.png) [@T.M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T.M)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-we-call-the-new-ninth-planet/743710/28 "2016-01-21T01:56:11Z")
> [@Mr.Kobayashi](#): > > Ninth? Did they let Pluto back in? Nope, American astronomers at Caltech have found evidence for a [new ninth](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/150119-new-ninth-planet-solar-system-space/) planet beyond the Kuiper Belt, 10 times as massive as Earth, either a super-Earth or mini-Neptune. > > \*"The group’s calculations suggest the object orbits 20 times farther from the Sun on average than does the eighth - and currently outermost - planet, Neptune, which moves about 4.5 billion km from our star. > > But unlike the near-circular paths traced by the main planets, this novel object would be in > a highly elliptical trajectory, taking between 10,000 and 20,000 years to complete one full lap around the Sun."\* > [Case made for 'ninth planet' - BBC News](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35365323) > > But what do we call it? Personally I think the sisterhood is a bit underrepresented in the planets, so I’d call it Juno. Or you could complete the Archaic Triad with Mars and Jupiter and call it Quirinus. Elsa (Frozen it has to be that far out) ---
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-we-call-the-new-ninth-planet/743710/29 "2016-01-21T03:11:35Z")
Carmen Sandiego ---
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Yuggoth. Lovecraft was right. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-we-call-the-new-ninth-planet/743710/31 "2016-01-21T03:23:49Z")
Rupert ---
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Diabeetus… ---
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Planet Terror ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-we-call-the-new-ninth-planet/743710/34 "2016-01-21T04:25:37Z")
> [@Mr.Kobayashi](#): > > Personally I think the sisterhood is a bit underrepresented in the planets, so I’d call it Juno. Arthur C. Clarke suggested that the tenth planet should be called Persephone, another underworld deity and wife of Pluto. But now Pluto’s not a planet. Dear me, it’s all very complicated. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-we-call-the-new-ninth-planet/743710/35 "2016-01-21T04:56:48Z")
Well obviously it gets named after the corporation that makes the highest bid. Most likely Edward Jones or Chik-Fil-A or Penske. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-we-call-the-new-ninth-planet/743710/36 "2016-01-21T05:06:23Z")
We should call it the tenth planet. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-we-call-the-new-ninth-planet/743710/37 "2016-01-21T05:14:37Z")
Mondas ---
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Pluthumb. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-we-call-the-new-ninth-planet/743710/39 "2016-01-21T05:18:57Z")
Velikovsky, after one of our most brilliant astronomers. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-we-call-the-new-ninth-planet/743710/40 "2016-01-21T05:19:35Z")
Persephone seems to be a common choice (Clarke, Niven, Adams) but Jules Verne used Olympus as a massive planet past the orbit of Neptune. Stranger [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-we-call-the-new-ninth-planet/743710.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-we-call-the-new-ninth-planet/743710.md?page=3)