[Nachum]

I've always wanted to name the planet "Bob", myself.

[BenLurkin]

How about:

"Planet so far away nobody will ever get there, certainly not in our lifetime or that of our children,grandchildren or even their great - great - grandchildren."

[FreedomCalls]

If we want to encourage private space exploration, name it "Planet-made-of-Gold-Free-to-Anybody-who-can-Come-and-Get-it" kinda like what the Vikings did with Greenland.*

* They named the icy island "Greenland" to encourage settlement, and named the green island "Iceland" so no one would want to settle there and they could keep it for themselves.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Mike Brown and his team of astronomers have been calling the planet "Xena":

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3288636

[Radioactive]

Top ten names in the running for the new planet:

10. Planet Holywood

9. Your Anus

8.Daily

7.Bill Gates

6.Planet Evil...for Doctor Evil.

5.Of the APES.

4. 10th Rock from the sun

3.BOB

2.WHAT...from "what" planet are you from

And the number one name in the running for the new planet.......

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.

.ORK.

[AFPhys]

Brown, a fan of TV's Warrior Princess, has given the informal name of Xena to 2003 UB313, a frozen orb some 15 billion kilometres (nine billion miles) from Earth, New Scientist said on its website (www.newscientistspace.com) on Tuesday.

I can't believe you haven't shown up on this thread, or any of the other "new plant" threads! It seems someone ought to have pinged you to this! I would have done so earlier, but I just found out about this name possibility.

I'm off to Sterling Renaissance Festival today... toodles.

[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.

[SunkenCiv]

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