What should they name Xena when it becomes an official planet?

Question

I was thinking of the strong Roman god/goddess name tradition, and i would have liked Peresphone/ Proserpina, the Queen of the Underworld in Roman mythology, since the planet is a icy-cold one.

i think they r going to follow the roman god's name tradition,
! Proserpina or Peresphone !

spelling error* its Persephone, not Peresphone...
and no Xena just can't possibly be the name, its not Roman, but they should change it quick, before ppl like the stupid name Xena too much.
How about JANUS?

Answer 1

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) may adopt Xena as the name for UB 313. Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology who discovered the planet nicknamed it Xena after the warrior princess of TV fame. He chose Xena because it would be the 10th planet which is "X" in roman numerals.

The 12 planets in our solar system listed in order of their proximity to the sun would be Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Charon, and Xena (UB313). Pluto's largest moon, Charon; and the asteroid Ceres would be categorized as planets. Pluto would be categorized as both a planet and a pluton. Both Pluto and Charon each are large enough (massive enough) to be spherical. Both bodies independently satisfy the definition of “planet”. The reason they are called a “double planet” is that their common centre of gravity is a point that is located in free space outside the surface of Pluto.

The new definition of a planet: any round object larger than 800 kilometers (nearly 500 miles) in diameter that orbits the sun and has a mass roughly one-12,000th that of Earth. Moons and asteroids will make the grade if they meet those basic tests.

The growing category of "plutons" - Pluto-like objects that reside in the Kuiper Belt, a mysterious, disc-shaped zone beyond Neptune containing thousands of comets and planetary objects.
Plutons are distinguished from classical planets in that they reside in orbits around the Sun that take longer than 200 years to complete (i.e. they orbit beyond Neptune). Plutons typically have orbits that are highly tilted with respect to the classical planets (technically referred to as a large orbital inclination). Plutons also typically have orbits that are far from being perfectly circular (technically referred to as having a large orbital eccentricity). All of these distinguishing characteristics for plutons are scientifically interesting in that they suggest a different origin from the classical planets.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, most of the good mythological names, including Persephone, Prosperina, and Minerva have already been blown on asteroids.

I thought Eurydice has connections to Hades and doesn't appear to be taken, but there is 75 Eurydike, so that probably won't go either.

If the IAU diddles away any more time before coming up with a name, whatever obscure mythological reference they choose may well be forgotten in popular usage in favor of Xena.

Answer 3

"planet" is a label that we attach to objects that meet certain criteria. Depending on it physical characteristics and its relation to the solar system, an object can be: a "minor planet" a "dwarf planet" a "planet" (implying a full-fledged planet). Although there was no such thing as an official, written-down definition, there was already an implicit one that was created in the 1860s, when the planets Ceres, Pallas, Vesta and Juno got deprived of their "planet" status and turned into "minor planets". The objects themselves did not change, only the label used to describe them. When that unwritten definition was applied to Pluto, it became apparent (as better observations were made) that Pluto was in the same predicament as the other four were back in the 1850s. So, someone thought: "Let's force the IAU to officially recognize Pluto as a planet, which will force them to create a definition that will increase the number of planets". However, it did not work. Instead, the IAU confirmed that the unwritten definition (which is now a written one) was the one that they prefer to use. They did create the new class of objects called "dwarf planets" to recognize that Pluto does belong in a class that makes it "almost" a full-fledged planet. So, Pluto is still a planet; it's just that is it a "dwarf" type of planet.

Answer 4

Minerva, the Roman goddess of War. She was shortlisted when Uranus was named but did not get the job

Answer 5

I,too think they should name it after something to do with the Roman underworld.I suggest several names:

Styx(the river to the underworld)
Cerberus
aspodel(a region oin the underworld)

Answer 6

It's already named Xena leave it as such.

Answer 7

How about Lucy Lawless?

Answer 8

Keep it as Xena!

Answer 9

how about DECILON (stress pronounced on the first syllable). It has Deci in it which is latin for 10, and this new planet wiil be the 10th in our solar system. welcome, DECILON!!!

Answer 10

ooo i like that!! it sounds cool!!