The "Warrior" planet!

Many of us probably know about Planet X by now all thanks to the media! But there is another scoop in store. Astronomers who discovered the planet (Michael Brown of Caltech, Chad Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii, and David Rabinowitz of Yale University)were calling it "Xena" (Planet "X"). During their internal communications. But the people who discovered it have no authority to name it. The authority rests with the International Astronomical Union who officially designated the planet 2003 UB313 which as you can see is very boring. So there are lots of discussions going on in the internet speculating about what the planet should be named. The discussions are reasonable because this is the first time a planet has been discovered after the proliferation of the internet and so all the netizens would believe that they will have a say in the naming of the new planet. "Xena" seems to be a likely contender owing to the "X" factor which stands for both number 10 in Roman numerals and also X in English alphabet is used to represent the unknown in algebra (Scientists were searching for this unknown planet). But what ever it is my vote is definitely for naming the planet as "Xena". If you for some odd reason think that I have made up this story then you can click on the following links to take you to the related news articles (One of them is actually from the BBC):

The tenth planet

The warrior planet

BBC News - Astronomers discover 10th planet

Top 10 names for the tenth planet

Astronomy Cafe