What would you name the new planet?

[ThoughtCriminal]

Seems like there's a good chance they'll classify it way.

http://www.wired.com/news/space/0,2697,68373,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_9

[Sannum]

1. Can we start making plans to send all of the repubs there?

Please?

[Droopy]

2. Droopanus

[progmom]

3. swag

:)

[In_The_Wind]

4. The Planet of Peace

[DS1]

5. 10

So all the nerd engineers in the world can buy a telescope and look for the giant Number 2 in our solar system

[Placebo]

6. Planet X

oOoOooOoOoOohHhHHhHhHhHHhHhhHhHh....

*cue scary music*

:scared:

[Jack Rabbit]

7. Waldo

For now, it's being called Xena; since planets are traditionally named for Roman gods, calling it Xena would be just plain Lawless.

[UrbScotty]

8. Not enough is named after Reagan, you know

:sarcasm:

[Jack Rabbit]

11. Now that you mention it , , ,

This planet is cold, distant and shrouded in darkness.

It could be named Dick Cheney.

[kcr]

9. Goofy

to continue the Disney/dog theme of the ninth planet

[RandomKoolzip]

10. Steve

[AlGore-08.com]

12. So that junior high kids can giggle at another planet: "Quirinus"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirinus

In Roman mythology, Quirinus was a mysterious god.

At first he probably was a Sabine god. Sabines had a settlement near the future site of Rome, and they called one of their sites, in which they had erected an altar, the Collis Quirinalis ("Quirinal Hill") after Quirinus; this area was later included among the Seven hills of Rome, and Quirinus became one of the most important gods of the state as the deified form of Romulus, the founder and first king of Rome.

His name derives from co-viri "men together"; as such, he embodied the military and economic strength of the Roman populus collectively. He also watched over the curia "senate house" and comitia curiata "tribal assembly", the names of which are cognate with his own.

Quirinus' wife was Hora.

In art, he was portrayed as a bearded man with religious and military clothing.

He was sometimes associated with the myrtle plant.

His festival was the Quirinalia, on February 17.

Cited in Virgil's Aeneid I, 292

Roman citizens were sometimes called "Quirites" after Quirinus, and considered the title an honor (Livy).

[iconoclastic cat]

13. Nemesis!

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~Svmalkin/anomaly/nemesis_intro.htm

[sleipnir]

14. Ramses the Second.

Seems that guy didn't get enough when he was alive, now he's forcing us to name a planet after him. What a smug bastard. Someone should deal with him.

[Maddy McCall]

15. Ndugu

[Kurovski]

16. Claire