NASA Announces 10th Planet - It Too To Be Named JVN?

[JoeXIII'007]

I read about the possibility of its existence in a magazine more than 2 years ago, and from that point, I've just accepted the soon-to-be-fact that there are 10 planets. Now we have a good even number of planets in our solar system, and everyone can relax (I don't know about everyone else, but nine just didn't seem to be the correct number of planets in the first place.)

As far as naming it JVN? Sorry, but people have been looking for planet X for a long time. So I think it'd be right to name planet #10 "X."

Oh yeah, that one astrologer who is suing NASA over blasting a crater into that one comet, I think she's been paid back. Unless the discovery knocks her readings off, she now has another planet to make her predictions with.

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by JoeXIII'007

As far as naming it JVN? Sorry, but people have been looking for planet X for a long time. So I think it'd be right to name planet #10 "X."

X also stands for 10, so it fits. Mabey they can make the planet name the Mac OSX logo! (it too may happen due to Dave's pull in NASA )

[JoeXIII'007]

Originally Posted by JosephM

X also stands for 10, so it fits. Mabey they can make the planet name the Mac OSX logo! (it too may happen due to Dave's pull in NASA )

Right on!

By the way, I knew that X meant 10.

-Joe"X"III'007

[Madison]

I hope they continue with tradition and give it a name steeped in mythology.

[mechanicalbrain]

yes it shall be named democracy after the mythical beast that to this day is thought to roam the wilds of america never trully seen but many reports have come in over the years! (i was reading some new laws on protecting gun makers and i just felt like getting rid of some anger. no i dont want a political debate just amusing myself)

[Daniel Brim]

I thought the 10th planet (Sedna) was already discovered?

[mechanicalbrain]

oh yeah forgot about that. does it really count though?

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by DanielBCR

I thought the 10th planet (Sedna) was already discovered?

The news here is that this newly identified distant object is larger than Pluto, so there's really no way to avoid calling it a planet (unless we also demote Puto to a "subplanetary Trans-Uranic Object").