On Jul 30, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Chuck Hards wrote:
Anyone else have suggestions for the name of the new planet before it's officially announced?
I propose "Tartarus". The following is from Encyclopedia Mythica. However, when you see the word "anvil", please substitute "bowling ball." Tartarus is the lowest region of the world, as far below earth as earth is from heaven. According to the Greek poet Hesiod, a bronze anvil falling from heaven would take nine days and nights to reach earth, and an object would take the same amount of time to fall from earth into Tartarus. Tartarus is described as a dank, gloomy pit, surrounded by a wall of bronze, and beyond that a three-fold layer of night. Along with Chaos, Earth, and Eros, it is one of the first entities to exist in the universe. Bob