{"id":522,"date":"2004-03-14T15:43:56","date_gmt":"2004-03-14T18:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=522"},"modified":"2006-04-15T07:59:40","modified_gmt":"2006-04-15T11:59:40","slug":"and-the-xth-planet-will-be-called","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"And the Xth planet will be called&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>B<\/span>race yourself for tomorrow&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,5744,8968352%255E29098,00.html\">announcement of the 10th planet circulation our Sun<\/a>. But, <em>is it really a planet?<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>And of course the planet needs a name too: it has been given the name Sedna, the Innuit Goddess of the Sea, but this is a provisional name.  I wonder what might be the most appropriate name for that little rock. The first thing that shoots up is <em>Nemesis<\/em>, but I&#8217;ve been playing too many games in my previous life. And think of all the chaos on Earth if there&#8217;s going to be a <em>tenth<\/em> planet. The changes we have to make to books, expositions at museums and observatories and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astronomycafe.net\/qadir\/q770.html\">the Internet<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>So, for the sake of humanity, I urge scientists and astronomers to forego the announcement. Nine Planets should be plenty for all of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brace yourself for tomorrow&#8217;s announcement of the 10th planet circulation our Sun. But, is it really a planet? And of course the planet needs a name too: it has been given the name Sedna, the Innuit Goddess of the Sea, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=522\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}