To: A CA Guy
I hope they use the myths of anybody but Greeks or Romans. Big Kahuna would sound nice.
7 posted on
07/30/2005 12:18:00 AM PDT by
carumba
To: carumba
Planet Hillary Clinton it is.
8 posted on
07/30/2005 12:21:45 AM PDT by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: carumba
They've pretty much exhausted the Greek and Roman mythological roster in the Asteroid Belt. The big Kuiper-belt objects are being named after creation goddesses.
44 posted on
07/30/2005 5:54:20 AM PDT by
GAB-1955
(Proudly confusing editors and readers since 1981!)
To: carumba
I was kind of hoping they'd break with Greco-Roman tradition and name the new planet "Mickey" to go with "Pluto". The next one can be "Goofy."
53 posted on
07/30/2005 8:07:40 AM PDT by
NaughtiusMaximus
(Stop being a victim, resist social engineering.)
To: carumba
As long as it isn't something politically incorrect, like say, a mythological god represented by a white male (see planets 1, 4-9).
87 posted on
07/31/2005 12:31:44 AM PDT by
xrp
(Fox News Channel: ALL ARUBA ALL THE TIME)
To: carumba
The astronomer that found it submitted the name "Lila" to the IAU- his daughter's name.
88 posted on
07/31/2005 7:08:22 AM PDT by
Brett66
(Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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