BAH GOD IT’S PLUTO WITH A STEEL CHAIR!
Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over?
Submitted 2 weeks ago by thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz to astronomy@mander.xyz
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KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
original_reader@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
What are we going to name it when it is found?
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 2 weeks ago
If Mike Brown finds it, he’ll jump all over naming it, and I’m sure that’s part of his motivation for hunting it so doggedly. Super nice guy, but he’s a glory hound like that.
collapse_already@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I think they should call it Nibiru to feed the conspiracy theories.
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 1 week ago
I had a roomate ten years ago who seriously believed in all that crap. Lizard people from the edge of the solar system here to claim our gold.
HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 2 weeks ago
pluto was called planet X until it was discovered
KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Let’s call this one Planet Twitter, just to annoy Elon.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
With two exceptions*, the names are from Roman mythology. So I’d expect the new planet to get a definitive name from the same template. (Please be Janus. It’s the gate of the solar system!)
*Uranus is from Greek mythology, with no good Latin equivalent. Terra is trickier; you could argue that it fits the template for Latin and the Romance languages, but most others simply use local words for soil, without a connection to the goddess. That is also called Tellus to add confusion.
YungOnions@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Tellus would be a cool name for a planet, imo.
Daxtron2@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
It will likely be a Greek or Roman name in keeping with tradition. The IAU generally let’s the person/group that discovers have an influence in the decision but they’re the final say on the name.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Planet Nine from Outer Space
. . . I’ll show myself out
Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Pluto 2 electric boogaloo
Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Olap@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Surely the absence of nine indicates our model of gravity is off. Combined with lack of Dark Matter, is Einstein wrong?
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
No.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Batterige, or whoever it is’s, law of headlines ig
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Betterige is correct.
deezbutts@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Godwin