From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V6 #150 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Sunday, August 27 2006 Volume 06 : Number 150 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] Long live Pluto - Friday Chicago Tribune Pluto Editoral With Planet Xena Mention ["Daniel T. Mi] Re: [chakram-refugees] Xena, the biggest dwarf [cr ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:51:42 -0700 (PDT) From: "Daniel T. Miller" Subject: [chakram-refugees] Long live Pluto - Friday Chicago Tribune Pluto Editoral With Planet Xena Mention http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0608250316aug25,0,464272.story?coll=chi-newsopinion-hed Turns out there is still a strong chance Xena will be given planet status. Just have to wait a lot longer. The picture mentioned that accompanied the editorial is a cartoon one of their staff artists did of a giant Disney Pluto sitting on a little tiny planet Pluto with perhaps Charon or Xena in the background. The Chicago Tribune's Friday front page Pluto article was also very good. In it, the NASA scientist in charge of the Pluto probe predicated that by the time the probe reached Pluto in 2015, this brouhaha would be nothing but a trivia question. With that article there was a picture lineup of Planets and possible planets. UB313 has printed under it "a.k.a. Xena." Just found a BBC story about with no mention of Xena - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5283956.stm Makes this sound even more hincky than what was in yesterdays Chicago Tribune. Based on the criteria used in this resolution, Earth might no longer be considered a planet! _____________________________________________ Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:37:10 +1200 From: cr Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Xena, the biggest dwarf On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:00, KLOSSNER9@aol.com wrote: (big snip) > Now that its status has been determined, UB313 will be named, perhaps > fairly soon. Except for Earth, the 8 remaining planets (plus ex-planet > Pluto) are named after Roman gods, which are really Greek gods under Roman > names. (snip) > Six names of major Roman gods are still available. Diana (Greek > name Artemis) would probably not be used because people would > think it referred to the late UK princess. It's tempting to suggest > Artemis, but we should remember that Artemis' association with the > Amazons is not part of real mythology. It was invented by the show. Besides which, as you pointed out, the Roman name - Diana - is the one that precedent says should be used - and I agree, Princess Di mania has probably spoiled that one. Pity, Diana used to be a good name in its own right. > Juno was the Roman name for Hera, a villainess in the show, so I > hope she doesn't get anything named after her. Hey, Hera was a good character. She came right in the end - and on a Xena episode, at that! Juno would do fine.... > Bacchus (Greek Dionysus) is another Xena villain. Drunken bum. > Apollo had the same name among the Greeks and the Romans. And he was just plain obnoxious (on Herc). > Cupid (Greek name Eros) would no doubt be rejected > as a planet name on grounds it would be too cute. Yep. > Apollo is a possibility, but the planet namers might not want to risk > association with the Battlestar Galactica character. I am rooting > for Minerva, the Roman name for Athena. Besides the similarity > in their names, Xena and Athena had some things in common. > Xena said that Athena was the only god she respected. In her > book Lucy lawless & Renee O'Connor, Nikki Stafford wrote that > she saw similarities between Xena and Athena, which she > thought may have been intended by the show's creators. And I'd go for Juno..... except of course, _we_ all think that 'Xena' should stay, don't we? :) cr ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V6 #150 **************************************