According to Tombaugh The name Pluto was used mostly as a reference to the god pluto
from this http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/tom0int-2 interview...
How did you name it Pluto? Pluto was the god of the underworld. The lower world, I guess it would be better to say -- of Hades. Pluto's out there far from the sun, where sunlight, at the average distance, is only one sixteen-hundredth as bright as on earth. Rather dark. And if you think of Hades as a dimly lighted place or outer darkness, it kind of fits in somewhat with the characteristics of Pluto probably, or of Hades. So it seemed fairly appropriate from that standpoint. And then when the satellite of Pluto was discovered in 1978 by Christy at the Naval Observatory, he named it Charon because his wife's name was Charlene. Charon was the boatman who ferried the souls of the dead across the river Styx to Pluto's realm of Hades. So the satellite name fits in very well with Pluto, you see.
The almanac says that the name came from the initials Percival Lowell.
Well, that was another reason, but not the main reason. Of course, they used the first two letters, Percival Lowell. But that was not the main reason. That was somewhat of a coincidence.
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According to Tombaugh The name Pluto was used mostly as a reference to the god pluto
from this http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/tom0int-2 interview...
How did you name it Pluto?
Pluto was the god of the underworld.
The lower world, I guess it would be better to say -- of Hades. Pluto's out there far from the sun, where sunlight, at the average distance, is only one sixteen-hundredth as bright as on earth. Rather dark. And if you think of Hades as a dimly lighted place or outer darkness, it kind of fits in somewhat with the characteristics of Pluto probably, or of Hades. So it seemed fairly appropriate from that standpoint. And then when the satellite of Pluto was discovered in 1978 by Christy at the Naval Observatory, he named it Charon because his wife's name was Charlene. Charon was the boatman who ferried the souls of the dead across the river Styx to Pluto's realm of Hades. So the satellite name fits in very well with Pluto, you see.
The almanac says that the name came from the initials Percival Lowell.
Well, that was another reason, but not the main reason. Of course, they used the first two letters, Percival Lowell. But that was not the main reason. That was somewhat of a coincidence.
For a good presentation on the research go to http://www.rockefeller.edu/ and click on the interactive movie.
Considering t-mobile in nyc (according to customer support the network has been down for weeks, I haven't been able to make or get calls in that time) I'll be plan shopping after the 24th.
I've always thought it was odd how they rate how popular a movie is based on gross earning, I'm a-lot more curious about how many people actually went to the theatre to see it. I guess its based on a hollywood beancounter system. I'm sure they wouldn't care if 5 people saw it , as long as they all paid a $100,000,000.00 ticket price.
1. photopgraphy, google requires a minimum of text to index a site, I had a site of all my own photo work and google wouldn't touch it.
2. I can speak first hand that the linking rating system does not work. a site I worked on http://www.williamkowalski.com/does not show up even when typing in a search for william kowalski and it's the authors official site!