[meteorite-list] What to name Planet X

From: Walter Branch <branchw_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Aug 3 17:16:06 2005
Message-ID: <013901c59870$87f77db0$6a01a8c0_at_DrCollman>

Hi Rob,

Yea, that's the one! He got his teeth removed by the wanna-be dentist elf.

I forgot the elph's name, but a moon could certainly be named after him.

Good choice.

-Walter
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From: "Matson, Robert" <ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_saic.com>
To: "'Sterling K. Webb'" <kelly_at_bhil.com>; <cynapse@charter.net>; "Meteorite
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Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 3:25 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] What to name Planet X


> Hi All,
>
> How 'bout planet "Bumble", after the term of endearment for the Abominable
> Snow Monster from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? ;-) --R
>
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> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers to Decide What Makes a Planet
>
>
> Hi, Darren,
>
> Brown wanted Persephone, too. But it's taken, years ago, by a MINOR
> planet.
>
> ORCUS, a Greek name for the Afterlife is already taken by another
really
> big KBO, 2000DW. Eurydice?
> Elysium? Minos? Hades? The Underworld names seems too negative for a
happy
> object. They may all be
> taken by the 240,000 minor planets, some of whom are named for members of
> this List.
>
> Brown has been searching for years. I'll bet he long ago figured out a
> good name for the Whopper
> when he found it. We'll see.
>
> Sterling
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