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To: Tanniker Smith
"Planet X" has it all: mystery, science and it's the Roman numeral for 10, and planets all have Roman names anyway.

Only because we don't use the Greek names in English. Then they'd be; Hermes, Aphrodite, Ares, Zeus, Cronos, Ouranos, Poseidon and Hades.

71 posted on 06/22/2006 6:17:47 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
Right, and that would just be silly. We'd have Hermes astronuats and Cronos V rockets. And then we'd have to call it Planet Chi or something.

TS
(And then instead of all the clip art of Pluto(tm), we'd have clip are of Chia Pets.)

74 posted on 06/22/2006 6:31:51 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

You forgot Terra, which would be ? in Greek?


138 posted on 06/22/2006 6:17:13 PM PDT by stands2reason (Rivers will run dry and mountains will crumble, but two wrongs will never make a right.)
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