Naming the TRANSPLUTONIAN PLANETS Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Naming the TRANSPLUTONIAN PLANETS
# 6687 bylucioc@... on Aug. 4, 2005, 12:29 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
For the good or for the bad, everyone is already using the name "Xena"
for the Tenth Planet. Yes, the Princess Warrior. It was the nickname
that the planet discoverer (obviously a fan of the TV series) was used
to, and that leaked to the great public. Now, I have the strong
feeling that, if the IAU comes with a longer and more complicated name
like Cerberus or Persephone, everyone will keep using Xena, because it
is short and (probably) more popular in the mind of the public.