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   Peabody-Martini said, 3 months ago

   We expect no more from Brewster.
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   Bruno Zeigerts said, 3 months ago

   Maybe we should name it ‘Spleen’ in honour of Winkie…
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   Bilan said, 3 months ago

   According to gmanetwork.com, the moon will probably be named Vulcan.
   This must be true, since it’s on the internet.
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   old1953 said, 3 months ago

   Persephone is taken.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/399_Persephone
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   CaptBullock said, 3 months ago

   I’m surprised the name Vulcan, a major Roman god, hasn’t already been used for a solar system body. It was proposed as the name of a hypothetical planet between the Sun and Mercury, but Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity made its existence superfluous in 1915.

   Dr. Mel, I know you only said that Pluto was based on Greek myth, but just for the record, Pluto himself was Roman.
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   CaptBullock said, 3 months ago

   @old1953

   Not only is Persephone taken, but so is the 2nd place finisher in the poll, Cerberus (an asteroid). Unsurprisingly, Vulcan finished first. These results are not binding on the IAU nomenclature committee.
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   Nabuquduriuzhur said, 3 months ago

   With greek and roman names for most things in the solar system, why’d they pick shakespeare and pope characters for Uranus’ 27 moons?
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   Coyoty said, 3 months ago

   When are they going to start naming things after Native American mythology? I want a moon or planet named after me!
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   Varnes said, 3 months ago

   Coyote, I whole heartily agree!…I assume you have read Christopher Moore’s Coyote Blue…A wonderful, and beautiful book…Coyote should be the first one. But, here in Ojibwa country, he’s called Manabezho, which, yes, would be a great name for a moon…..
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    pcolli said, 3 months ago

    @Varnes

    There’s a whole world of mythology to use up.
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    Ray C said, 3 months ago

    @CaptBullock

    All of the planets and most of the bodies in the solar system have Roman names, and all have Greek equivalents. For example, “Pluto” is the Roman name for “Hades”, the god of the underworld. But the Greeks also called him “Plouton”, so the rules were not so strict.
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    Clark Kent said, 3 months ago

    This planet does not have a name. “Earth” is not a name, it is a generic term. Everybody would call their home planet “earth”.
    Imagine if aliens came here or we went to their planet. If it was the first meeting for both races, one would say “I come from earth” and the other would say “no we come from earth” and it would dawn on both of them that they hadn’t bothered to name their home planets.
    For our planet I nominate the name “ayn randian hell”.
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    Chris Maple said, 3 months ago

    Call it “Heck”.
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    ossiningaling said, 3 months ago

    @Clark Kent

    How about Jasoom?
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    dbig 1oohh said, 3 months ago

    @Clark Kent

    We can’t call it Hell even though many feel like they live in it. Let’s call it “Qwertyuiop”. The Aliens need to get a good laugh.
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