stormwyvern said:
I should hope that it's currently on the phone with it's agent and seeing about getting a better name. ;)
 

 trekker9er said:
Lol! Yeah. Something like... what's a name of a first god?
 

 stormwyvern said:
I'm having trouble finding a suitable one, partly because Wikipedia doesn't do much to separate "myth" (which I consider to mean "ancient religion no longer really practiced by anyone") and "religion" and my feeling is that planets should be named after deities from myth as naming a planet after a deity who is still worshipped might be considered offensive or sacreligious.

I'd like to get away from the Greco-Roman pantheon, but I can't shake the appropriateness of calling it Vulcan. Not so much in the Roman myth sense, since I believe astronomers wanted to use the smith god's name for a theoretical planet that's closer to the sun than Mercury, but more in the Star Trek sense.

We could also call it Pluto, since there's no longer a planet using it, though that might get a little confusing.