Hail Eris!

[mikekn]

BBC Story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5344892.stm

ETA: IAU Release: http://www.iau2006.org/mirror/www.iau.org/iau0605/index.html

Comments

[mikekn]

What moirla said :)

More details are in the BBC article.

[nicosomething.livejournal.com]

I'm also glad they didn't stick with Xena. Although if they wanted to break with the Roman/Greek thing I would have loved for them to go Norse. Hel would also match nicely with Pluto.