Eris

[kmusser]

Yay, Eris has a new home. Already sent a note of congratulations to the discoverers that the IAU accepted their suggestion.

Comments

o.O

[meapet.livejournal.com]

huh?

Re: o.O

[kmusser]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/13/AR2006091301889.html

Re: o.O

[meapet.livejournal.com]

ahhh... oh so clear now!

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

i don't care: it's still Rupert, dammit.

[maugorn.livejournal.com]

I can't WAIT for the Astrologers to get a hold of this.
I want to know where Eris is in my chart.
Strike that. I NEED to know.

Also, I wonder if her orbit intersects anyone else's. Is she also possibly primed to give someone a wallop some day?

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

Only if we can finally call Pluto by its real name: Yuggoth.

[kmusser]

chuck_lw already made the suggestion that there may be Trojan War reenactors among the MiGo.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Right now she's in 21 Aries and is moving retrograde. Zane Stein is an astronomer and minor-body enthusiast - his Eris page is http://zanestein.com/Trans-pluto.htm#UB313 and he has an ephemeris up at http://zanestein.com/10th_Ephemeris.htm which you can check for your birth date. I don't care for his symbol for her, but he came up with it months or years ago - maybe he'll revise it now that she has a name.

[chuck-lw.livejournal.com]

I may have been influence by Ilium and Olympos by Dan Simmons -- but that story was set on Mars -- and Earth -- or both.

damn

[zammis.livejournal.com]

that simply explains everything right there. :)

[maugorn.livejournal.com]

Does that happen to mean, or do you know if, She's *recently* entered retrograde? (and for an orbit that size, recently could be in the past year)It would make sense, not just from an Astrological point of view, but that abnormal motion might have helped them find Her.

Anyway, if you look at my own lj, just an hour ago, I predicted that this might be the case. I'm very tickled to be right. Could you do me a favor and copy/paste post your comment (and the links) in my journal too?

[hexar-le-saipe.livejournal.com]

Arthur C. Clarke got it wrong... Eris is where we're going to find the monolith.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

The "Stations" section on the Ephemeris indicate transitions from prograde to retrograde. Since Eris is effectively motionless in space, her motion in our sky is almost entirely due to Earth's motion, so she's in retrograde about half the year. For the last few years she's been going retrograde on July 17 and prograde on January 7.