From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Dec 05 2000 - 17:30:59 MST
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.
Damien Broderick
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