* She was the sister of the Wandering Stars (Stilbon, Hesperus, Pyroeis, Phaethon, and Phainon) before they were conflated with the Olympian Gods and their Roman counterparts. * Her name and the term "asteroid" share a nearly identical terminology - asteroid translates to "star-like" while Astraea means "star-maiden". I'm looking at "Astraea" for the following reasons: Vulcanus (Not to be confused with Vulcan the intra-Mercurial)Īlso, back to Phaeton, if you ask me, personally I think it should have a goddess's name or a feminine one, because the names of the first twenty asteroids are from feminine figures. There's also a series of hypothetical "Uranian" planets beyond Pluto: The planets are Persephone, Caina, Antenora, and Ptolomea, after the innermost rounds of Dante's Inferno. I've heard that Larry Niven's *fictional* novel The Borderland of Sol mentions various trans-Neptunian planets, as well as having demoted Pluto due to it being suspected of being an escaped Neptunian satellite. Thomas Jackson Jefferson See planet #3 (Caina?) Thomas Jackson Jefferson See planet #2 (Persephone?)Ģ5. Phaeton (shattered to form Asteroid Belt)Ģ4. Caloris Basin impactor (collided with Mercury)Ĩ. Here is a list of the planets of our early Solar System (including a hypothetical, disputed one):Ģ. Why don't we try adding all of the hypothesized trans-Neptunian planets?
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