If a Ninth Planet is discovered in the Outer Solar System, should it be called Hercules?

why not Hesikos after the planet in Angus McVicar's Lost Planet series? (very good read, btw)

 

As a SPACE:1999 fan my choices are either Ultra or Meta.

 

Lupa.

 

Do you care if it falls? The Roman empire...

True, the name Earth isn't Roman, but Terra is. Further, it's derived from the Greek goddes Hera.

In regards to the original post, I'm kinda partial to Diana. Similar to the Greek goddess Artemis, it was said that any mortal man who looked upon her naked form would be struck dead.

 

Ah, Planet Jeff I approve

 

Or turned into a stag and chased down and killed by his own dogs.

 

Gary is a nice name.

 

Nerys would be a cool planet name

Or Deanerys

 

Ishtar has already been identified with the planet Venus, and the planet even has an Australia-sized "continent" named Ishtar Terra.

Actually, it’s been theorized since January 2015 (five years ago) that there may be two planets beyond Neptune’s orbit, and I’m a proponent of this derivative hypothesis:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/01/17/two-planets-beyond-pluto/21912521/

The first (Planet Nine) is expected to have a semi-major axis of around 200 astronomical units and a mass between that of Mars and Saturn. And of course, I've voted Persephone on the poll.

Persephone itself is expected to be in an orbital resonance with another planet even further out, with a mass of 10 Earth masses and a semi-major axis of 250 astronomical units. This time, I’m not fully sure on what to name that second planet (Vulcan is unfitting because he is a fire deity and recently an asteroid with an orbit fully within the orbit of Venus has been discovered, and I honestly want it to be named Vulcan; Oceanus is unfitting too because it was proposed by the egocentric fringe astronomer Thomas Jackson Jefferson See, Minerva as also unfitting because she has nothing much to do with the underworld).

 

I'd suggest Olaf since any planet that far out would necessarily be covered in ice

 

Or Hoth, they could name it Hoth if its covered in ice

 

Or Rura Penthe

 

They already named the snowman Arrokoth

 

if the rumour is true that the starwars planet is named after hermann hoth (for his professional experience with snow) that won't gonna fly

 

Perfect and Space Force can build a prison there

 

The cloud planet where "Lando Kadar" lives was called "Hoth" in the first draft of The Empire Strikes Back by Leigh Brackett. There's even a line in that screenplay about the name "Hoth" possibly meaning "cloud." So, that "rumor" of yours, assuming that there even is such a thing, is totally bogus.

 

• it was big in the german press when the empire strikes back came out. i didn't say it's true - i said it existed (might as well be our 'sensibilities')
• who's lando kadar? calrissian?

edit to add:

the daily beast talked about it as late as 2015 - click -

 

Ah, so they are just repeating the rumor. Sloppy. Well, it lacks foundation in fact. Hoth could not have been assigned to the snow planet because of a WWII general's exploits in the snow, because the name "Hoth" was originally assigned to the cloud planet.

Yes, obviously the character named "Lando Kadar" in the first draft was evolved into Lando Calrissian.

 

Start by reinstating poor Pluto to Planet 9, then we can discuss the possibility of a tenth planet in the Solar System.

 

No.