It could also get tedious. Many of the 'worlds' we would be interested would be satellites of larger planets. For example, Europa would be Sol 5 C
John Sheff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
We may have to settle for ‘Epsilon Eridani 3’ or ‘Tau Ceti 4’. It works, but it’s kind of unimaginative…
- John from Cambridge
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James McEnanly
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 6:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: First good data on diameters of the biggest Kuiper Belt objects
You're right. The Greco-Roman Pantheon is just about exhausted. I am wondering what we are going to do when we get serious about naming extrasolar planets.
Bruce Moomaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=9446
This is a measurement using the technique -- whose accuracy has already been
proven on other outer Solar System objects -- of measuring their thermal
radiation, aa technique not falsely biased by any assumptions about their
albedos. (Also, the measurement for Quaoar agrees very well with the Hubble
telescope's visual estimate.)
By the way, judging from Quaoar and Varuna, the names of the KBOs are
finally going to start honoring other human mythologies besides the Greek --
and about time, too.
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