Sedna

On Sat, 14 May 2005 21:20:40 +0100, Aidan Karley
<doIlookDAFTenoughTOpost.RemoveThis@validEMAILaddressTOa.NEWS.group> wrote:

> Trying to think of an ObNiven. And failing. The closest I can get
>is that Carlos and Bey had an encounter "On The Borderlands of Sol", and
>they knew Elephant, and Elephant had an apartment in the Andes. So
>obviously NLarry knew this years ago.
> (Yes, I know. The apartment was in the Rockies. And the Borderland
>planetesimal was never named. But that's the closest I can get to a
>connection.)

Good effort there.
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In article <fIxm7.2485$lk6.886214@news.uswest.net>,
"Ginevra M. Longbottom" <ginevra_ml.TakeThisOut@qwest.net> wrote:

> Why does nobody ever mention that Sedna - the recently-discovered large
> asteroid with an Inuit name - is "Andes" written backwards?

Since I posted this, Pluto has been demoted and Eris has joined the club,
but what's happened with all the other recently-discovered large objects,
which were waiting until the controversy died down to receive names?


Ginevra

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On Jan 2, 8:16 pm, "Ginevra M. Longbottom" <ginevra_ml@orpheusnet>
wrote:
> In article <fIxm7.2485$lk6.886...@news.uswest.net>,
> "Ginevra M. Longbottom" <ginevra... DeleteThis @qwest.net> wrote:
>
> > Why does nobody ever mention that Sedna - the recently-discovered large
> > asteroid with an Inuit name - is "Andes" written backwards?
>
> Since I posted this, Pluto has been demoted and Eris has joined the club,
> but what's happened with all the other recently-discovered large objects,
> which were waiting until the controversy died down to receive names?

This seems to have recently been updated:

http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/dwarfplanets.html


William Hyde
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In article <fIxm7.2485$lk6.886733@orpheusnews>, Ginevra M. Longbottom
wrote:
> Since I posted this, Pluto has been demoted and Eris has joined the club,
> but what's happened with all the other recently-discovered large objects,
> which were waiting until the controversy died down to receive names?
>
The discoverers (in the sense of the person or group that pins down
the orbit to a usable degree, probably involving predicting new sightings,
even in old plates) get the right to propose the names, which are open to
review and possibly rejection by the appropriate body of the IAU (I think
the Minor Planets Centre, but you should check that). The constraints are
generally fairly loose (see asteroid ZappaFrank, for an example), but they
are there.
If the discoverer doesn't propose a name - maybe they're busy - then
someone else can propose a name, but it still has to be OK'd by the
discoverers.

Go mining the data archives, and make a good reason for naming
yourself a planet. Or a planetesimal.

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Written at Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:04 GMT, but posted later.
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it save power, but the flickering of the monitors annoys the pterosaur."
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In article <VA.000014aa.122834ed.RemoveThis@email.provider.invalid>,
name1_name2.RemoveThis@email.provider.invalid (Aidan Karley) said:

> The discoverers (in the sense of the person or group that pins
> down the orbit to a usable degree, probably involving predicting
> new sightings, even in old plates) get the right to propose the
> names, which are open to review and possibly rejection by the
> appropriate body of the IAU (I think the Minor Planets Centre, but
> you should check that).

Based on their rejection of "Xena" I suggest that their real name
is the Committee For Making Sure That Nobody Has Any Fun.

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In article <flrlmq$5vb$1@panix3.panix.com>, William December Starr
wrote:
> Based on their rejection of "Xena" I suggest that their real name
> is the Committee For Making Sure That Nobody Has Any Fun.
>
Check out http://www.astro.cz/mpcorb/MPCORB.ZIP (a mirror of the
CFA original). In particular asteroids 4147, 4148, 4149 and 4150. Or
maybe 23120 should be contrasted with one that hasn't been named yet.
16745 and 3834 (but none for his children, which they may be thankful
for).
It might not be humour that would work well in stand-up, but it
is humour of a sort.

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Written at Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:39 GMT, but posted later.
"Please turn your monitors off when you leave the building. Not only
does it save power, but the flickering of the monitors annoys the
pterosaur."
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On 6 Jan 2008 17:45:46 -0500, wdstarr.RemoveThis@panix.com (William December Starr)
wrote:

>In article <VA.000014aa.122834ed.RemoveThis@email.provider.invalid>,
>name1_name2@email.provider.invalid (Aidan Karley) said:

>> The discoverers (in the sense of the person or group that pins
>> down the orbit to a usable degree, probably involving predicting
>> new sightings, even in old plates) get the right to propose the
>> names, which are open to review and possibly rejection by the
>> appropriate body of the IAU (I think the Minor Planets Centre, but
>> you should check that).

>Based on their rejection of "Xena" I suggest that their real name
>is the Committee For Making Sure That Nobody Has Any Fun.

What, you don't think they had fun deciding, after all the brouhaha
over Big Iceball planetary status and acceptable nomenclature, to use
"Eris" and "Dysnomia" for the Big Iceballs Formerly Known As Xena And
Gabrielle?

I'd have preferred the nicknames be formally adopted, but there was
clearly a sense of whimsy at work there.


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