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Which will you pick? This poll is closed. |
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| Acheron |
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111 | 7.37% |
| Alecto |
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17 | 1.13% |
| Cerberus |
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256 | 16.99% |
| Erebus |
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98 | 6.50% |
| Eurydice |
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51 | 3.38% |
| Heracles |
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18 | 1.19% |
| Hypnos |
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82 | 5.44% |
| Lethe |
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59 | 3.92% |
| Obol |
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42 | 2.79% |
| Orpheus |
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106 | 7.03% |
| Persephone |
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149 | 9.89% |
| Styx |
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264 | 17.52% |
| Sexteroid |
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135 | 8.96% |
| Impastabowl |
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119 | 7.90% |
| Total: | 1507 votes | ||
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I've seen several people mention that Cerberus and Erebus rhyme. I think those people are mispronouncing Cerberus, because they don't really rhyme, except for the "us" at the end. Erebus is AIR-uh-bus Cerberus is SIR-ber-us Unless you've taken Latin and you're a stickler about hard consonants in Latin words, and then it's more like CARE-ber-us, which still doesn't rhyme with Erebus.
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| # ? Feb 14, 2013 21:48 |
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| # ? May 25, 2013 05:23 |
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I had a professor who pronounced Cerberus like "cerebrum". I hate Ms. Pronouncers. /\/\Nem oss in ee Buce fucked around with this message at Feb 14, 2013 around 22:01 |
| # ? Feb 14, 2013 21:57 |
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Voted Orpheus and Eurydice, because it's one of my favorite stories of Greek mythology, and we need a little humanity in our solar system. And tiny, tiny, tiny little rocks seem like a good fit of scale.
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| # ? Feb 14, 2013 21:58 |
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Can dwarf planet moon's take corporate sponsorship? Like, U.S. Cellular Cerberus, and Allstate Acheron?
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| # ? Feb 14, 2013 22:04 |
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Duo TCR posted:Can dwarf planet moon's take corporate sponsorship? Just asked a dwarf moon, it said
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| # ? Feb 14, 2013 22:10 |
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Vulcan shouldn't even be allowed because moons follow the Greek naming, while planets follow the Roman naming, "Vulcan" should be "Hephaestus" instead. Since we've already got Pluto, I think it only makes sense for dwarf planets to use the Roman naming, but certainly not their moons. I'm still miffed about Eris not being named Discordia.
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| # ? Feb 14, 2013 22:15 |
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Wingless posted:Man, I'm not sure a dwarf planet that is neither the closest, nor the largest, nor the smallest, nor the furthest of the dwarf planets is worth all this attention. Actually it may end up being the largest again.  quote:In 2010, preliminary results from observations of a stellar occultation by Eris on November 6 suggested that its diameter may be only 2,326 km, which would make it essentially the same diameter as Pluto.[16] Given the error bars in the different size estimates, it is currently uncertain whether Eris or Pluto has the larger diameter.[17] Both Pluto and Eris are estimated to have solid-body diameters of about 2330 km.[17] Of course Eris is more massive. And there is probably a 99% chance something larger than either of them is still out there. But as a serious-answer, Pluto was the first KBO discovered, so in that sense it is important. And it's the largest binary system, so that's also important. It's also the only KBO known to have an atmosphere, and it has a shitload of moons apparently so it's still pretty cool and important as far as things in the solar system go.
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| # ? Feb 14, 2013 22:30 |
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Mnemosyne posted:I've seen several people mention that Cerberus and Erebus rhyme. I think those people are mispronouncing Cerberus, because they don't really rhyme, except for the "us" at the end. 3 syllables of which the first ends in the same consonant, the second is an unstressed syllable, and the last syllable is a perfect rhyme... Yeah I'm pretty sure that qualifies those two names as rhyming. And then even in the Care-ber-us (spelled Kerberos in Greek) naming convention you mentioned (hey look another rhyme) it rhymes even more. Care=Air. But this is all beside the point. Vote Cerberus and Styx! Dethrone Vulcan! Or we could throw in a bunch of votes for Hoth just to troll Shatner. It's because it's a frozen planet! 
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| # ? Feb 14, 2013 22:33 |
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Do you guys really want a moon named after a cheesy prog-rock band that Adam Sandler is obsessed with?
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| # ? Feb 14, 2013 22:53 |
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Costello Jello posted:Do you guys really want a moon named after a cheesy prog-rock band that Adam Sandler is obsessed with? No, Styx is a crap name.
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| # ? Feb 14, 2013 22:58 |
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I ignore the crappy band. It is a word that comes from mythology and that's all I think about when I think of it. 
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| # ? Feb 14, 2013 23:02 |
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Vulcan is going to win the vote because Star Trek, then at the last minute they'll bait-and-switch all votes to Hephaestus.
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| # ? Feb 14, 2013 23:08 |
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Man, how small does a rock have to be before it's not considered a moon? 21 miles is ridiculously small.
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| # ? Feb 14, 2013 23:48 |
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RatHat posted:Man, how small does a rock have to be before it's not considered a moon? 21 miles is ridiculously small. Well, no matter how big it is, it's a satellite, but as far as the moon designation....scientists will need to get together in a room and argue for several days about which definition will piss off the most people. I'm thinking 7000 miles or greater circumference, for max effect.
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| # ? Feb 14, 2013 23:56 |
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No option for Ronald and Grimace?
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| # ? Feb 15, 2013 00:54 |
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Why is there no option for Bort?
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| # ? Feb 15, 2013 00:56 |
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Lethe, because The Dig was a rad game, and Styx, because then it's thematically consistent.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2013 00:58 |
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Persephone and Cerberus. Wife and dog. Although Acheron and Styx, the two rivers, would be a good second. They have to go together somehow. E: vvv screw trekkies, if they're choosing names that appeared on their TV show instead of perfectly sensible mythological names, then they deserve that spot in Hades. Tardigrade fucked around with this message at Feb 18, 2013 around 04:57 |
| # ? Feb 15, 2013 01:12 |
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Tardigrade posted:Persephone and Cerberus. Wife and dog. Although Acheron and Styx, the two rivers, would be a good second. They have to go together somehow. Vulcan and Styx Vulcan and Cerberus Unless if enough people can agree to vote Cerberus and Styx, it will be one of those 2 options. Persephone, Acheron, Erebus, Lethe, are all rad but have no chance against the trekkie force.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2013 01:19 |
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Good morning. It's a new day and a new opportunity to change my vote to Cerberus and Styx.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2013 05:40 |
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Voted for Styx and Persephone in honour of obscure Simpsons references.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2013 07:00 |
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It looks like they added a bunch of other names to the ballot: Vulcan Elysium Hecate Melinoe Orthrus Sisyphus Tantalus Tartarus Thanatos There are some pretty badass names in this new batch, particularly Thanatos  and Elysium, but let this server as your daily reminder to vote for Cerberus and Styx so an icy chunk of rock isn't named after a fictional volcanic planet! Also, the OP is updated to reflect these changes.
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| # ? Feb 16, 2013 14:14 |
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dee eight posted:I dunno, mythological type names are cool and stuff but I'd love to see those moons called Jules, Isaac, Ray, Hugo, Frank, Harlan, or Arthur. Also Niven, Bester, Vance, Dick. Also this is the 21st century, would it actually cause you pain to include a couple of female writers? Ursula and Octavia Abnegatus posted:As much as I love all the names they've chosen, I am afraid to vote because what if we find an awesome hades-like planet and we can't use anything listed here? Don't worry we still have Vulcan. Also in my mind Persephone is earmarked for a yet-to-be-discovered gas giant somewhere in the Oort cloud, but I couldn't tell you where that notion comes from. Anyhoo I agree with previous poster that two ice lumps don't really deserve names, my choice would be Left Nut and Right Nut, Leftie being the one with the outermost orbit. Pluto's status as a planet might be a matter of contention but at least it'd be the only one swinging its balls around.
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| # ? Feb 17, 2013 09:35 |
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Mr Havafap posted:Also this is the 21st century, would it actually cause you pain to include a couple of female writers? What about James Tiptree? 
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| # ? Feb 17, 2013 09:41 |
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I could never vote against Dr. Orpheus. 
Hogarth Hughes fucked around with this message at Feb 17, 2013 around 10:13 |
| # ? Feb 17, 2013 10:06 |
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Everyone who votes for "Vulcan" and ruins the underworld theme of Pluto and its satellites can eat poo poo. loving nerds.
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| # ? Feb 17, 2013 10:32 |
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Leave it to Trekkies to publicly reserve themselves a spot in hell.
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| # ? Feb 17, 2013 17:17 |
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Chairman Mao posted:Leave it to Trekkies to publicly reserve themselves a spot in Fixed that. 
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| # ? Feb 17, 2013 17:25 |
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If nerds are going to name rocks after lame nerdy things why couldn't it be cool lame nerdy things? What we really need is a Roy and a Batty in our solar system.
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| # ? Feb 17, 2013 17:53 |
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Silhouette posted:No option for Ronald and Grimace? gently caress, changing my vote to this
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| # ? Feb 17, 2013 18:38 |
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GirlBones posted:Everyone who votes for "Vulcan" and ruins the underworld theme of Pluto and its satellites can eat poo poo. loving nerds. There's something hilariously ironic about disparaging nerds while simultaneously OCD nerd-raging about not loving up the mythology naming scheme.
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| # ? Feb 17, 2013 18:53 |
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ComposerGuy posted:There's something hilariously ironic about disparaging nerds while simultaneously OCD nerd-raging about not loving up the mythology naming scheme. Don't lump them all together. The "Vulcan" advocates are quite clearly dorks, not nerds, as no-one with a modicum of intelligence (a prerequisite for not being a "dork") would vote for an ice moon to have that name. Here is a diagram that should hopefully clarify things: 
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| # ? Feb 17, 2013 19:31 |
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In for Persephone and Cerberus. Persephone is my daughter's name so I pretty much had to vote for that one. Because how cool would it be to have a satellite with your name on it?
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| # ? Feb 20, 2013 14:09 |
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Am I the only one that is bothered that the HubbleSite link from OP has it's math wrong?quote:(by comparison our Moon is .01 percent Earth's mass). Moon | mass | 7.3459×10^22 kg (kilograms) Earth | mass | 5.9721986×10^24 kg (kilograms) 7.3459×10^22 kg / 5.9721986×10^24 kg = 0.0123 (1.23%) I hear that math is hard... Cerberus and Erebus, definitely.
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| # ? Feb 20, 2013 15:33 |
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It's probably a confusion of 0.01 earth mass ≠ 0.01% earth mass. But still.
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| # ? Feb 20, 2013 17:18 |
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I voted Obol. All hail tiny rock Obol.
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| # ? Feb 20, 2013 17:22 |
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There's a recession on, M1 and M2 will suffice
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| # ? Feb 20, 2013 17:59 |
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Obol and Melinoe, seeing as how small they are.
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| # ? Feb 20, 2013 18:04 |
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I have a feeling if this took place after the next Avengers movie then Thanatos would win. Thanos 4 
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| # ? Feb 20, 2013 18:11 |
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| # ? May 25, 2013 05:23 |
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I'm pretty sure this isn't binding so hopefully whoever's in charge of this is smart enough to ignore the trekspam.
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