> From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > At 10:20 PM Sunday 2/5/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: > >Robert G. Seeberger wrote: > > > >>"I keep on talking about my object as that thing we found or 2003 > >>UB313, which is a horrible name," said Mike Brown, a Cal Tech > >>planetary scientist who discovered the object with colleagues Chad > >>Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory and David Rabinowitz of Yale University. > >>"It can't get an official name until it has an official status and > >>right now it doesn't have an official status, so it can't get a > >>name," he said. > > > >So he's not going with the convention a number of other astromers > >are using, referring to it as "Xena"? > > > He started using that as a preliminary name. He says he has a better
> permanent name in mind to be revealed when the time comes. Hopefully > he is not going to follow the example of a SF story I read some years > back where the discoverer of several planets beyond Pluto named them > Mickey, Goofy, et. al. . . . (Dunno if the IAU would approve those > names, or, for that matter, if they would approve "Xena" as the > official name . . . ) It need to be named after a major Greek/Roman god like Athena. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
