...but I think we're supposed to call them "little people planets" now.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at June 15, 2007 11:16 AMBefore Dr Weevil gets to this:
I recalled Eris was the goddess of discord. According to Wikipedia, Hesiod (no, not the lame blogger of a few years ago) wrote that she had some offspring, among them the daemon Dysnomia (lawlessness) for which the planet's moon is named.
Posted by: steevil (Dr Weevil's bro Steve) at June 15, 2007 12:15 PMI just noticed that at least once in the article the author calls the moon "Dysomnia": "[...] Because Eris and Dysomnia are located more than 90 times farther from the sun than Earth--out in the Kuiper Belt region of the solar system, they appear as little more than pricks of light in telescope observations. [...]"
Heh--maybe some sort of sleep disturbance is giving the writer dyslexia.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at June 15, 2007 12:31 PM