What should we call the new ninth planet?

[burpo_the_wonder_mutt]

Latecomer

[Emtar_KronJonDerSohn]

Supearth

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

Bob !

[Frodo]

Frodo!

what?

[Declan]

Balon

Its the second thing that Starblazers got right.

Declan

[kopek]

@Ethilrist

New Pluto.

PluTwo?

@Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor

Bob !

And thus a new and scientific version of the drinking game can begin.

[Icarus]

Delia

Because she was always distant and cold.

[T.M]

@Mr.Kobayashi

Ninth? Did they let Pluto back in? Nope, American astronomers at Caltech have found evidence for a new ninth 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

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)

[WF_Tomba]

Carmen Sandiego

[Shoujin]

Yuggoth.

Lovecraft was right.

[MacTech]

Rupert

[Scumpup]

Diabeetus…

[blondebear]

Planet Terror

[Northern_Piper]

@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.

[Happy_Lendervedder]

Well obviously it gets named after the corporation that makes the highest bid.

Most likely Edward Jones or Chik-Fil-A or Penske.

[TriPolar]

We should call it the tenth planet.

[Peter_Morris]

Mondas

[Richard_Pearse]

Pluthumb.

[hogarth]

Velikovsky, after one of our most brilliant astronomers.

[Stranger_On_A_Train]

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