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Who first used Persephone as the name of a potential tenth planet?
In any case, I hope that's what they go for - that, or Bob. It'll be hard enough thinking of new menemonics to remember the planetary order without having a 'Q' on the end. Quaoar indeed.
quote:. . . after the creation myth of the Tongva people who inhabited the Los Angeles area before the arrival of the Spanish and other European settlers.
"Hey, guys, sorry about the whole centuries of oppression thing, and about stealing your land too. . . No, we're not going to give it back either. But hey! How's about we name a planet after your God? It's quite apt because this new planet is the Solar System's equivalent of the shitty lands we banished you to reservations on."
quote:Who first used Persephone as the name of a potential tenth planet?
Jack Williamson used it in "The Blue Spot" in 1937.
I haven't seen any mentions before that, yet.
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i hope it stays Quaoar. has a nice ring to it.
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Personally I'd prefer the planet to be named so it has something in common with the rest of them; which means figures from Greek mythology, clich�d though it may seem. Problem is a lot of them have been used up on asteroids etc. over the years, but I suspect Persephone has been held in reserve just in case. . .
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Did they use Plebius yet? That would go really well with a super-massive planet.
Also: Did they ever decide what the cut-off point is for planets? Pluto is pretty damn small, but then, Mercury isn't really that much bigger.
Why not just use a classification system where: If it has an atmosphere and is orbiting a star, it's a planet. If not, no matter how small or large, it's a planetoid/asteroid/whatever.
I guess you could just say it's a planet if it has an atmosphere, but that would confuse the public too much. Titan, for example, would get argued over by people who can't think in a holistic fashion. Even though that's the way it should be...planets can be satellites of bigger planets, Saturn is orbited by both planets and planetoids...
It would put this Pluto matter to rest, anyway. Having a debate over whether anything orbiting the sun is a planet or not is a waste of time.
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I'm sorry, but they have to change the name...
and as for Pluto.....
quote: Researchers say that as larger Kuiper Belt objects turn up, the case for regarding Pluto as a fully fledged planet weakens.
Pluto lies within the Kuiper Belt and is considered by many to be merely among the largest of the bunch, and not a planet in its own right.
"It's pretty clear, if we discovered Pluto today, knowing what we know about other objects in the Kuiper Belt, we wouldn't even consider it a planet," said Brown.
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"It'll be hard enough thinking of new menemonics to remember the planetary order without having a 'Q' on the end."
What is "menemonics"?
Roman names, hmm... How about
Babylon Sodom Gomorra ?
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a mnemonic device is a memory tool to help you remember something by association
the sentence "My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas" is usually taught to schoolchildren, as a way to remember the letters > MVEMJUNP < so that the children will be able to use that string of letters to properly order the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
I always preferred the recess variants like "Mary's Vaginal Excretions Jellied Sally's Unwashed Neck Polyp" or something of the like.
If we go with another 'p' planet, i guess they could change it to "Pizza! Pizza!" and have Little Caesar's cash in on it.
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quote:Originally posted by Nimpim: Roman names, hmm... How about
Babylon Sodom Gomorra ?
Since when are any of those Roman? OR Gods?
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My very excellent mother just served us nine perfect quaffs. Hey, that works!
In other news, it was harder for me as a child to remember the mnemetic device than to just recall the names of the planets. I seem to remember missing the question about the preferred mnemetic thing whilst getting the planets correct on some test in first or second grade.
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wouldn't the "preferred mnemetic" be the one that works for you? and boy, the roman's sure did speak a lot of languages and worship a lot of cities!
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