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The Sun's 10th Planet... Sedna?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-that-remains-to-be-seen dept.

dsanfte writes "While NASA remains intentionally vague, promising only a news conference Monday, The Australian has the details. The new planet, dubbed Sedna after the Inuit goddess of the sea, is 3 billion km further from the sun than Pluto, and is slightly smaller at 2000km in diameter. This discovery has apparently reignited the debate as to how big a solar object must be in order to qualify as a 'planet', but it is significant nonetheless."

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  1. Lets get this over with... by Den_onda_kotten · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I for one welcome our new Sedna overlord.

    In Soviet Russia, Sedna discovers you!
    1) Discover Planet
    2) ????
    3) Profit!

    Etc, etc, etc...

  2. Sedna? by Kirth · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Well it might be nice to use a inuit-goddess, but this totally breaks the namespace. You have to use roman gods and godesses exclusively, for Jupiters sake!

    We still got plenty left, by the way:
    Juno, Apollo, Diana, Cupid, Minerva, Ceres, Proserpine, Vulcan, Bacchus, Vesta, Janus, Maia and Flora. Some of them might not be such a good idea, Ceres, Vulcan and Apollo are already taken in some sense. And Proserpine is the goddess of the Underworld.
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    "The more prohibitions there are, The poorer the people will be" -- Lao Tse
  3. Obligatory Transformers reference... by Channard · · Score: 1, Redundant

    So why does that extra planet have horns, and is eating Pluto?