[meteorite-list] What to name Planet X

From: Matson, Robert <ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Aug 3 15:28:07 2005
Message-ID: <BE076B8CCE4CFE4D9598230D888B2ADF9382FC_at_0005-its-exs01.mail.saic.com>

Hi All,

How 'bout planet "Bumble", after the term of endearment for the Abominable
Snow Monster from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? ;-) --R

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Hi, Darren,

    Brown wanted Persephone, too. But it's taken, years ago, by a MINOR
planet.

    ORCUS, a Greek name for the Afterlife is already taken by another really
big KBO, 2000DW. Eurydice?
Elysium? Minos? Hades? The Underworld names seems too negative for a happy
object. They may all be
taken by the 240,000 minor planets, some of whom are named for members of
this List.

    Brown has been searching for years. I'll bet he long ago figured out a
good name for the Whopper
when he found it. We'll see.

Sterling
Received on Wed 03 Aug 2005 03:25:54 PM PDT