[meteorite-list] Pluto May Get Demoted After All

[Darren Garrison]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:53:50 -0500, you wrote:

>P.P.D. Pluto was actually named after the Disney Dog character by a British
>child

Not only that, but a British child with precognition!  (How else could she know
that the dog would be named Pluto in the future?)

"Pluto is also the name of the Roman god of the underworld. It was suggested by
many people, but credit was given to an 11-year-old girl from England."

"Rejected names included: Minerva, the goddess of knowledge, because it was
already in use, and Constance, proposed by Constance Lowell — the widow of
Percival Lowell, who first hypothesized Planet X. "That suggestion was quietly
ignored," says Kevin Schindler of Lowell Observatory."

"Mickey Mouse's dog, though yet unnamed, made his debut in "The Chain Gang" in
1930 — the same year the planet made its debut to earthlings. Pluto, the Disney
character, was named the following year, which leads Disney archivists to assume
the dog took the name of the planet dominating the news at the time, said Disney
archives director Dave Smith. (AP)"

From sidebar in http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/14/tech/main673946.shtml