Out of this world: magazine launches name-the-planet initiative

Yahoo News ^ | Tue Aug 2, 2005 | AFP

[Xenalyte]

Have a blast and let me know how much fun it was! (We started rehearsal yesterday!)

[ClearBlueSky]

Ok- they've tried to UNplanet Pluto, right? And the planet-ness of these three is already controversial...so...
they should be called " MaybePlanet 1, II & III". That way there will be no future controversy.

I'm sorry- if it's round and has its own orbit around a star, its a planet. If it is round and goes around a planet its a moon. If it's irregular shaped and orbits a star ,its an asteroid.

I've always thought it highly arrogant to name a planet you do not reside upon anyway. I mean, how would we feel to hear that residents of other planets have a disgusting, or derogatory name for Earth? We're just lucky there haven't been any Martians who would tie up the courts with defamation suits.

[ClearBlueSky]

I have no problem with Yaf, but there wasn't a planet Yaf in Star Wars-A New Hope. That was YAVIN.
If we're going to go Star Wars( why not!) how about Hoth? It's cold enough out there. It's even a mythological name, I believe.

[Fiji Hill]

I've never seen Star Wars--A New Hope, but I saw Star Wars I five times in 1977, and it sure sounded like they pronounced the name of the planet "Yaf." Being a Yaffer at the time, I was quite pleased that the good guys chose that planet as their hide-out.

[ClearBlueSky]

SW and SW-ANH are one and the same.
The rebel base was on the fourth moon of Yavin. I'm glad you were pleased nonetheless.
How about WOT as a name for this new planet?
Way Out There. We could use it with numbers for any others they find too!

[okie01]

If 'twere mine to do....

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...I would sell the naming rights to the highest bidder.

[Centurion2000]

I'm thinking Volturnus or Janus or Quirinus might be a good Roman god to name it after.

Of course if Volturnus is chosen, Star Frontiers Fans everywhere will be overjooyed.

[Fiji Hill]

That planet is way out there, indeed, if it's beyond Pluto.

"Professor, how far away is Pluto?'
"Well, it must be at least a thousand miles away."

From Outer Space Looters by The Mad Martians,
Satellite Records #33617 (45 rpm sound disc), 1957.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Sacajaweau]

My 11 year old grandaughter was screaming about the kids in her class having no imagination and that any dude was named BOB.

She had us all saying BOB this, BOB that, the rest of the night as my son, BOB, sat quietly with a BIG smile on his face.