The 10th World - Page 3

Caspar · 01-08-2005, 16:11

Call it Caspar

Angua · 01-08-2005, 16:20

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Originally Posted by Incognitas

Juno has been taken..

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/hilton/Aster...orplanets.html

I like Hades as a choice especially as it is so far out from the sun.

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Another link that might be helpful so as not to duplicate names already in use.

http://ephemeral.info/qot/bach.shtml

Thank you

Jules · 01-08-2005, 17:14

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Originally Posted by Caspar

Call it Caspar

Works for me

AndrewJ · 01-08-2005, 17:36

Unimatrix 1?

**Maggy** · 01-08-2005, 17:42

Well all I can say looking at what we have come up with, that it's just as well it's not up to us...

Nugget · 02-08-2005, 07:13

Oooh oooh - how about Galactus?

Alright, yes I did watch the Fantastic 4 cartoon this morning

Theodoric · 11-08-2005, 21:21

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Originally Posted by Damien

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Why is this not a bigger news item? I think it is a historical scientific moment.

Possibly because it, and also Pluto, should be considered as Kuiper Belt Objects rather than true planets; definitely B list astronomical bodies.

**Chris** · 11-08-2005, 21:42

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Originally Posted by Theodoric

Possibly because it, and also Pluto, should be considered as Kuiper Belt Objects rather than true planets; definitely B list astronomical bodies.

From what I've read, that is a minority opinion amongst astronomers. Sedna (if indeed that is what it's eventually called) was announced a couple of years ago but they waited until all the arguing was over before confirming it as a planet. It is a planet, as is Pluto (which is a smaller body).

Theodoric · 12-08-2005, 09:07

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Originally Posted by Chris T

From what I've read, that is a minority opinion amongst astronomers. Sedna (if indeed that is what it's eventually called) was announced a couple of years ago but they waited until all the arguing was over before confirming it as a planet. It is a planet, as is Pluto (which is a smaller body).

As long as I don't become a persecuted minority. (Not that I'm an astronomer.)

As you say, it's larger than Pluto. As astrology seems to pay no attention to the distance of a planet from Earth, I await with interest to see how they intend to handle this one. They seem to have managed to incorporate Pluto into astrology without any problem.

**Chris** · 12-08-2005, 09:11

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Originally Posted by Theodoric

As long as I don't become a persecuted minority. (Not that I'm an astronomer.)

As you say, it's larger than Pluto. As astrology seems to pay no attention to the distance of a planet from Earth, I await with interest to see how they intend to handle this one. They seem to have managed to incorporate Pluto into astrology without any problem.

Funny that. Or perhaps the fact that no-one has been taking account of Sedna up until now is the reason why horoscopes are useless?

I think I read somewhere that some crazy American woman is trying to sue Nasa for crashing a probe into a comet, fractionally altering its trajectory and thereby mucking up her horoscope ...

Theodoric · 12-08-2005, 09:17

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Originally Posted by Chris T

Funny that. Or perhaps the fact that no-one has been taking account of Sedna up until now is the reason why horoscopes are useless?

I think I read somewhere that some crazy American woman is trying to sue Nasa for crashing a probe into a comet, fractionally altering its trajectory and thereby mucking up her horoscope ...

I've just googled on +sedna +astrology and got 10,000 hits!