I’ll get back to you on that in about 20 hours…
That doesn’t seem right. Are you the god of time, or is time the god of you?
“Scientific sounding”? It is a Greek Mythology-sounding name to me.
In light of Pluto being divorced from the list of planets, it’s only fair that James Christy divorce his wife Charlene.
Or reclassify himself as a dwarf.
Persephone was already in use as an asteroid name;
Growing up, I saw Persephone every day. We had a Hirum Powers life-size bust of Proserpine (i.e. Persephone) in our foyer, til my father had it sold at Christie’s Auction House.
Similar to this:
Which means the IAU won’t approve assigning it to a satellite. At least I understand that’s the current rule. But there are a surprising number of name conflicts among solar system bodies, some as recent as 2001:
Most of my input comes from reading. I assumed it was “ch” as in “chomp” or “chunk” or “Chewbacca”. This is the first I’ve heard it should be “sh”.
Wait it’s pronounced the same as Sharon Stone’s first name? 
I always assumed it was pronounced like the ferryman of mythology. So lame.
Funny enough, Charon was named on my first birthday.
I’m sure this is well-established lore at this point, but something about this triggers my BS-radar.
If it were actually named for the Greek mythological character, the pronunciation would be /k/, such as in character or Christmas. At least that’s the way that letter (chi) is usually transliterated/pronounced in English. Unfortunately, that sometimes causes confusion with Greek names that have a kappa such as Cronus (confused with Chronos).
So our beloved mod isn’t pronounced like Shronos? 
I prefer Iuggoth for the hypothetical Planet X.
Of course, I also went awhile thinking names like Euripides was pronounce YOU-rip-eye-dzz. (Why isn’t Aristotle Ah-ri-STOW-tull-ee?). Since I’d encountered Argentinian bolas in cowboy lore, I thought a hyperbola was a hyper-BOH-la until my English teacher laughed at me.
Ah well - English and foreign pronunciation. Reminds me of G B Shaw wondering if fish could be spelled “ghoti”.
Try to rationalize the pronunciation of “bicycle”.
There is actually a difference in the pronunciation of chi and kappa, but it’s not usually a distinction that’s significant in English. Certainly the sound of chi is closer to an English k than it is to an English ch.
Any other pronunciation would be inconsistent with tricycle.
In Greek, his name was Aristoteles, and was pronounced something like Ah-ris-TOTE-uh-lees.
What, it’s “kye” not “cheye”? I did four years of physics and did not pick up on this.
Now it’s all Greek to me.