Naming the TRANSPLUTONIAN PLANETS

Hello Gang,
I remember since childhood reading about the possibility
of TRANSPLUTONIAN PLANETS. Recent theories with regard to planetary
formation postulate that there may be many such planets beyond pluto
residing in orbits above the ecliptic. In fact a few days the British
Magazine New Scientist ran such a cover story just a few days before
the anouncement of the 10th planet. What to name them?

A very good Canadian friend of mine named Ian Licari has suggested
naming the
newly discovered planet Cerberus. Now according to the web site
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/c/cerberus.html in an article written
by Micha F.
Lindemans, Cerberus, in Greek mythology was the three-headed watchdog
who guards the
entrance to the lower world, the Hades. It is a child of the giant
Typhon and Echidna, a
monstrous creature herself, being half woman and half snake. To quote my
friend Ian
"perhaps Cerberus, as the guardian of the world of the dead, is
appropriate, since beyond
planet 10, is at least 4 light years of fairly dead space."

But, personally since most of the planets are named after male Roman
Gods, Venus being
the only exception, lets name the new planet after Roman goddess
Proserpina (Greek
name, Persephone) Pluto's wife.

Alex Michael Bonnici