rdwald - Slashdot User

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Submission + - "Xena" to be named Eris

Submitted by rdwald on Thursday September 14, 2006 @02:33AM

rdwald writes: After over a year of hanging in maybe-planet limbo, newly-classified 2003 UB313 (nicknamed Xena) now has a permanent name: Eris! Its moon will be named Dysnomia, after the goddess of lawlessness (certainly not a reference there...) I don't think I'm alone when I say, "Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!"

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