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Para Handy

Para Handy
Sapyx said:
"Persephone" is one of the "science-fiction-conventional" names for a large planet discovered beyond Pluto; I believe Arthur C. Clarke was the first to use the name in this way, back in 1946. It is assumed by FD that the recently postulated Planet IX, once it is confirmed, will be given the name "Persephone".

Which is a shame, to an extent, as all the other "actual planets" in our solar system have Latin-based names, while Persephone is Greek-based. To keep the "Latin theme", they should have used the Latin version of the name: Proserpina. Of course, the IAU may veto both options, on account that both the names Persephone and Proserpina have already been given to asteroids, over a hundred years ago (asteroid numbers 399 and 26 respectively). The IAU tends to avoid giving two objects the same name if it can be avoided.
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Nix and Nyx come to mind (otherwise known as I want to call it Nyx but I can't so I'll pretend you can spell it differently).
 

ShoeHash

ShoeHash
Persephone is the hop off point for any Greys attempting celestial observation of our species, and it has been for years. All abducties know this, but it's just not accepted by the sheeple at large.

And the greys are just us a long time in the future after we've discovered how to revive all the dead on a moon of Jupiter.
 

JetsonRING

JetsonRING
Vandaahl said:
I think he means Persephone. There is no such thing as Persephone, while all the others dwarf planets are there. Persephone was long ago a fictional 9th planet, named after the wife of Pluto, but it was never found. They might as well add Nibiru to the system.
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Are we really going to nit-pick "reality"? We're flying around in faster than light, nuclear/electrical spaceships, Mars is terraformed. Yes, Persephone, Nibiru too.
 

Andrew Gaspurr

Andrew Gaspurr
koop26 said:
Well Nibiru supposedly is the home of the ancient alien race that cultivated and steered our evolution through the ages. [big grin]. At least that's according to the comments section of discovery.com and the History Channel.
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Nibiru is associated with various astronomical phenomena or bodies in Sumerian or Babylonian astronomy. On the one hand it was a term for the equinox or the division of the heavens, on the other it was supposed to be a fixed star (Marduk's star), but even that star was recorded at various locations in the sky so it might as well be a symbolic transition of a planet through the zodiac. In the Mulapin, an ancient Babylonian star catalogue, Nibiru was identified as Jupiter.

Nibiru was also subsequently thought to have been a planet that caused a major celestial collision in the Sol system with another hypothetical planet (Tiamat) between Mars and Jupiter, which myth then describes as Marduk slaying Tiamat, thus creating the asteroid belt.

It was Zecharia Sitchin, who came up with the 'Annunaki created Man' story and linked it to Alien theory. He calculated an orbit of 12,000 years for the Annunaki planet based on the Sumerian kings' list and called it Nibiru, which he also tranlated as 'Home built far away' or something. It was ment as a contrast to Eridu, the first recorded city state of then Sumerian Mesopotamia. He also tried to link many records of the Enuma Elish (the Babylonian Creation Myth) to his theories, givng them a "Stargate"-like story which I personally find just ridiculous.

But again, it's just somewhere between science and belief.
 
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