[extropy-chat] SPACE: Yet more about KBO 2004 DW

Russell Evermore nanowave at shaw.ca
Sun Feb 22 07:08:27 UTC 2004


> While my opinion likely doesn't mean anything to the astronomers, I
> find it highly pretentious to be giving the names of mythic gods to
> balls of ice (it's bad enough some jovian ice moons got such
> treatment). Qaoar is a bit much. I would propose that in keeping
with
> Pluto, that KBO's should be named after dogs.

I agree, like maybe, "Fetch1" or "Useless2"
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