Planet Xena has a moon called Gabrielle
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miriam_e(Space & Astronomy News, 3/10/05)
Xena, the possible 10th planet in our solar system, has its own moon, a dim
little satellite called Gabrielle, its discoverers say.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/space/SpaceRepublish_1473136.htm
Xena, the possible 10th planet in our solar system, has its own moon, a dim
little satellite called Gabrielle, its discoverers say.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/space/SpaceRepublish_1473136.htm
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Yaay Gabrielle!
Date: 2005-10-10 08:48 am (UTC)And I love the names of the other 2 planets in the Kuiper Belt.
Re: Yaay Gabrielle!
Date: 2005-10-11 10:53 pm (UTC)Yeah. Me too. Santa and Easterbunny. Wonderfully nutty.
Those researchers are doing a good job of blowing the cobwebs off science. It follows a recent tradition of naming things like that gene SonicHedgehog and some of the quarks Charm and Beauty. The mathematicians possibly started the trend with the naming of the number 1 followed by 100 zeros as a google (largely forgotten now).