and what makes him/her unique to the other peepes who got to name a planet?
2006-09-09 05:09:56 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Naming
Venetia Burney, the girl who named Pluto
The right to name the new object belonged to the Lowell Observatory and its director, Vesto Melvin Slipher. Tombaugh urged Slipher to suggest a name quickly for the new object before someone else did.[7] Name suggestions would pour in from all over the world. Constance Lowell, Percival Lowell's widow, proposed Zeus, then Lowell, and finally her own first name, none of which met with any enthusiasm. Mythological names, such as Cronus and Minerva, were high on a list of considered names.[8]
The name Pluto was first suggested by Venetia Phair (née Burney), at the time an eleven-year-old girl from Oxford, England.[9] Venetia, who was interested in Classical mythology as well as astronomy, suggested the name, the Roman equivalent of Hades, in a conversation to her grandfather Falconer Madan, a former librarian of Oxford University's Bodleian Library.[10] Madan passed the suggestion to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Turner then cabled the suggestion to colleagues in America. After favourable consideration which was almost unanimous[citation needed], the name Pluto was officially adopted and an announcement made by Slipher on March 5, 1930.
The name retained for the object is that of the Roman god Pluto, and it is also intended to evoke the initials of the astronomer Percival Lowell. In the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, the name was translated as Star of the King of the Dead (冥王星). In Vietnamese it is named after Yama (阎王星
2006-09-09 05:14:43 · answer #1 · answered by Laughing Libra 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Greed God? i've got by no potential heard of Hades being linked with greed. Hades is the ruler of the underworld and Lord of the ineffective. Pluto substitute into named after a Greek God, whether it substitute into no longer named via the classic Greeks. Pluto substitute into no longer stumbled on till 1930. I reckon it substitute into named in honor of the God the Underworld by using fact of it relatively is distant region.
2016-09-30 12:28:40 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Walt Disney
2006-09-09 05:12:13 · answer #3 · answered by guitardan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ancient People?
2006-09-09 05:11:48 · answer #4 · answered by Sk8erboi83 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe it was named through greek mythology
2006-09-09 05:14:18 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Walt Disney!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was either going to be called that or the planet goofy.
2006-09-09 06:23:42 · answer #6 · answered by Vinyleyes 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God maybe??!!!!huh?
2006-09-09 05:21:40 · answer #7 · answered by Kay 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋