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

What Roman deity would you choose?


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Also I've made a size comparison video yesterday featuring both hypothetical planets and my "best" names for them. They're both about halfway through the video:
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Some suggest Planet 9 may be a black hole--here, it is shown at 1:1 scale--about the only time any thing is shown life size in an astronomy text:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.11090.pdf

the Dante's Inferno names are bumped up a place

If P9 is a black hole it should be Cocytus--or perhaps The Aleph
 
Some suggest Planet 9 may be a black hole--here, it is shown at 1:1 scale--about the only time any thing is shown life size in an astronomy text:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.11090.pdf



If P9 is a black hole it should be Cocytus--or perhaps The Aleph
I don't believe that theory. Even Wikipedia doesn't want to mention it. The Cocytus name and comparison is okay for a primordial black hole though, however I still prefer Persephone.
 
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