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10th planet found?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3511678.stm
Astronomers have found an object about the size of Pluto in the outer regions of our solar system. The "new planet" has been named Sedna, after the goddess of the ocean in Inuit mythology. However, since there is no real definition of what is a planet and what is not, it is not that this new celestial body will get planet status. Astronomers aren't even sure if Pluto should be called a planet. To find objects orbiting around the sun at a distance further than Pluto is nothing new. There is the so-called Kuiper-belt which has more than 400 big objects in it, however this is the largest object so far that they have found out there, next to Pluto. Am I the only one who thinks that they should have named the object after a Vala rather than an Inuit goddess?
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03-15-2004, 02:33 PM | #2 |
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Dude, that is awesome! A new planet?! Break out the *tequila* champagne! And yes, it should be named after a Vala.
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How about just 'Arda'!?
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How about Mandos, since everytime they find some new planet or comet or asteroid, the doomsayers come out crying about the end of the world, or the kinslaying, or whatever, "Great is the Fall of Gondolin" OOh, I'm scared now. Shakin'.
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Whoa. A new planet. Don't know if that's good news or not.
At least no aliens. But naming it after a Tolkien character would indeed be great.
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Is its orbit normal? theres probably a half dozen other obcjects of similar size in the Kuiper belt. but they tend to have wacky orbits because of the pin ball effect of living in an enormous cloud of rocks.
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dammit now im gonna have to learn more crap in my science next year
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Actually, if it's big enough to be named, I would have prefered them to stick to Roman mythological names. While the myth of Sedna is interesting, I'm sure there were enough Roman or Greek gods of godesses around to draw from. It stands so....so sloppy to break the tradition now.
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That is true, it would be a little sloppy. I dont even know the myth of Sedna. Mind enlightning me (or is it in the article, and I missed it )
Hell, Hera aint taken, nor is Athena (which I forgot both the Roman equivalents, and how to spell "equivalents")
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Thank you, Earniel .
Man, her dad was a (insert curse word)! Screw him. But that really doesnt fit the planet. Maybe if it was blue, or raven colored, but it said it appears red. Strange.
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They should name more celestial bodies after Norse gods. Them, I know tons about
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I think Sedna's myth about the only genuine Inuit myth that I know of, though. If I knew a little more of astronomy I could amuse myself with looking up random celestial rocks and try to determine from which mythology they're from. And who knows, maybe there's a Varda or an Uinen already circling above us!
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This is a bit off topic but I found a list of names for minor celestial bodies and found that a guy named Mark Watts in 1982 had named one asteroid Tolkien and another Bilbo! I couldn't find any asteroids named after any of the valar, but I did however find one called "Vala". Though it was discovered before the birth of Tolkien so it has nothing to do with him.
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I heard about it today. In fact, I was just talking about it. I was rather upset because they didn't name it after its discoverer.
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