what is the name of the 10th planet?

[LMNO]

And now it sucks even harder.


Thanks, Iason.  Asshole.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

That's easy enough to check.

Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007)

Eris is named after the goddess Eris (Greek Έρις), a personification of strife and discord.[21] The name was assigned on September 13, 2006 following an unusually long period in which it was known by the provisional designation 2003 UB313.

So, yes.

Yep, unfortunately, by September he was pretty well done in and had very little communication except through the awesome folks that were taking care of him. I can ask a few of them if the subject ever came up and what his reaction was.

Assuming of course, that he isn't right there, right now with Leary and Gonzo tripping balls across the planet with She What Done It All.

[the last yatto]

“Planet? What blasphemy is this? Dwarf planet, you fool!”
“She prefers the term ‘midget planet’, if you absolutely must.”
“What ’she’? Are you seriously anthropomorphisising a hunk of rock 2600 kilometers across?”
“A lass of rock. Planets like Mars, clearly masculine male objects, are ‘hunks’ of rock. But I appreciate the admiring sentiment.”
“Stop this planet nonsense. Dwarf planets are not a subdivision of planets; they’re an entirely separate category.”
“That’s planetism.”
“What?”
“Sure, you’re all for the big dogs of the Solar System, round heavy rollers like Jupiter and Saturn, who get their path swept clear for them and all so they won’t get bothered by nothing. What about the downtrodden small guys, huh? Is it too much to ask for just a little bit of sympathy?”
“I —”
“Sure, blame her. Everyone does that. ‘Oh, she came along, the lady of Discord and Heated Discussions, and now everyone’s up in arms about what’s a planet and poor Pluto is just crushed — won’t someone think of the plutoids? Won’t someone please think of the plutoids?’ Everyone says that. Sure, blame the starry messenger! And the fat cats of the Solar System keep their planet status for themselves — we wouldn’t be having this discussion if the IAU was headquartered on Pluto, would we?”
“Well, that’s a highly hypothetical —”
“No we wouldn’t! We would have planets, planets, planets as far as the eye can see! Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Randi, Plait, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Haumea, Kwisatz, Haderach, Makemake, Jesus, Eris, Yibb-Tstll, Hastur, Hastur, Hastur — hundreds and hundreds of planets, all metaphorically linking hands in one great harmonious music of the spheres! You can download the anthem for 99 cents, but it has DRM. It plays once, then bricks your computer.”
“Listen! That’s chaos and anarchy! You would have children needing a book just to memorize the planets! And half of those aren’t big enough objects anyway.”
“Oh, it’s sizeism now? Sock it to the dwarf planet, huh? You’re always moaning how children don’t read no more — well, here’s one proposed book and you’re all in arms against it! Besides, think of the commercial possibilities!”
“I think one of us has lost her grip on reality.”
“Why not both? Anyway, if you just were more lenient with your definition of a planet, allowed a bit smaller objects, Pepsi could launch its ‘Maximum Taste Planet Sponsored by Pepsi’ probe into solar orbit… think of it! Mercury, Venus, Maximum Taste Planet Sponsored by Pepsi, Earth!”
“Do the words ‘crass commercialism’ sound familiar?”
“Oh, this coming from the heirs of Galileo, whose idea of scientific impartiality was to name the moons of Jupiter after the children of his wealthy patron: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa de Medici! And what about the 1967 NASA memorandum?”
“Wait, what?”
“And I quote: ‘In the light of the recent events in Greece, to which this administration does not wish to draw unnecessary attention, it is thereby resolved that new Solar System objects be named after American men of great renown.’ We were a breath away from having Lyndon B. Johnson orbiting Saturn!”
“I’ve never heard about that!”
“Well, ignorance of history doesn’t make history go away. And ignorance of law doesn’t make you any less a lawbreaker. By the laws of debate I’ve won.”
“What — what law? Explain yourself, you Eridian hooligan!”
“I prefer the term ‘Eristic exciter’. Anyhow, do you have any further comments on the title? Or the content?”
“What content?”
* * *
An “Eristic debate” is, or so I hear, one where the goal is a victory by (m)any means, not clarification of matters. The above is my attempt to simulate such.

[Triple Zero]

where did you find that?

[Sheered Völva]

WARNING COMMERCIAL COMING: As it happens, a page of Intermittens Issue 7: Operation Mindfuck will have discussion about Planet Eris and the controversy. On 11 August 2005, Professor Mu-Chao, then named Prince Mu-Chao, started a Jake campaign to get Planet X/Planet Xena named Eris, and it actually worked. It's known as The Jake That Changed A World.

Somebody on this site (sorry, don't remember who and am too lazy to look) talked to one of the planet's namers, and he acknowledged he knew of the Discordian effort before it was named, but I don't know if he went so far as to say he named it because of the Discordians.

Still, I found getting a (dwarf) planet named after our Goddess pretty cool, even if its official name is 136199 Eris.

[BabylonHoruv]

The fact that Eris killed Pluto (or at least got his status as a planet revoked) is also pretty cool.

[AFK]

Well, Eris, and a bunch of no-fun astro-physicists like Neils De Grasse Tyson.