The tenth planet gets a name

[dianeduane]

Or the second planette. (Or dwarf planet, or planetoid, or whatever-the-F we're calling the Small Guys Out Past Neptune this week.)

Anyway: the planet formerly known as Xena is now Eris.  ...Which makes so much sense, given recent events.  And her moon is Dysnomia. (Which I would otherwise have pegged as the word for the syndrome that makes you hate naming things, but never mind.)

But now let’s get serious. What’s the new body’s symbol?

It really ought to be an apple.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Not to mention the name change has eliminated a great piece of trivia for our great grandgeeks: "Which celestial body is named not for a Greek mythological figure, but for a television character?"

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Oops, that was me.

[madfilkentist]

Pluto? (running away very fast)