Robert G. Seeberger wrote:
"I keep on talking about my object as that thing we found or 2003
UB313, which is a horrible name," said Mike Brown, a Cal Tech
planetary scientist who discovered the object with colleagues Chad
Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory and David Rabinowitz of Yale
University.
"It can't get an official name until it has an official status and
right now it doesn't have an official status, so it can't get a
name," he said.
So he's not going with the convention a number of other astromers are
using, referring to it as "Xena"?
Julia
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