Magazine readers to name newly discovered planet

[MonsterMash]

I vote for R'lyeth.

 

[Kaodi]

Read This

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/outerplanets-04b.html

Pull no punches, vote Cthulhu!

 

[Umbran]

The *exceptions* would be any object that is not large enough to initiate fusion, but large enough to emit light, making them dwarf stars...

You probably need to be more specific. Every single body in the solar system emits light, especially in the infrared. Many (including, I believe, all the gas giants) emit more energy than they recieve from the Sun.

 

[Desdichado]

You probably need to be more specific. Every single body in the solar system emits light, especially in the infrared. Many (including, I believe, all the gas giants) emit more energy than they recieve from the Sun.

Not to mention the fact that you risk having the exact same problem at the opposite end of the spectrum with a number of quasistellar objects like brown dwarfs and whatnot. When does a large gas giant planet become a brown dwarf, etc.? In fact, although I wasn't aware of this, the IAU has recently released guidelines to this effect for extrasolar planets, but they are problematic. "Planets" that drift in interstellar space (of which some claims of observation have been made, but I don't know if they're confirmed or not) can't actually be planets, for instance, and have to be "sub-brown dwarfs."

I believe there are now about 7 or 8 total largish ones, Quaoar, Sedna, Orcus, Charon, the three new ones (all of them are pretty hefty), and it looks like there's one other larger than Ceres that hasn't been named.

How in the hell did I miss out on a planetoid officially being named Orcus!? Damn, that's cool! Sounds like I need to start camping on all communications from the IAU's Committee on Small Body Nomenclature again; I'm behind on my Kuiper Belt discoveries!

 

[der_kluge]

Given that this thing is probably just a big snowball, my vote goes for Hoth!

 

[Shemeska]

Got to go with Yugolo... err... Yuggoth.

*tosses Lovecraft and a bunch of fiends into a box and has them fight over who has the cooler name idea for the new planet*

 

[Zander]

I'm behind on my Kuiper Belt discoveries!

Shocking! Absolutely shocking!! Fancy not knowing your Kuiper Belt objects. That's a really serious offence. It's 20 years' hard labour for you.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

What about Bob? That is what they named the newly formed planet in Titan A.E.!

 

[Desdichado]

Shocking! Absolutely shocking!! Fancy not knowing your Kuiper Belt objects. That's a really serious offence. It's 20 years' hard labour for you.

I most humble apologize for this grevious dereliction of my duties. I have toh. I ask for the favor that you help me meet my toh.

 

[the_redstar_swl]

IMO Yuggoth would be the best.
But Elvis would be cool aswell.
"Sir! We have reports of a giant spacecraft orbiting Planet Elvis!"