From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Dec 06 2000 - 05:08:53 MST
Damien Broderick <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
> At 02:21 PM 5/12/00 -0500, Mike wrote:
> >Naming conventions for solar system objects are confined, as I recall,
> >to Roman deities, demi-gods, and other aspects of the panoply of roman
> >mythology.
>
> AFAIK, James Blish and other sf writers long ago invented Proserpine (or
> maybe Proserpina) for the next trans-Plutonian world. Maybe the naming
> authorities should be informed. Proserpine was the abducted `wife' of Pluto.
Also known as Persephone among the Greeks.
However, the name is already taken:
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Bright/2000/00026.html
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