A new dwarf planet called Farout is the most distant object in the Solar System. - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2188500-a-new-dwarf-planet-called-farout-is-the-most-distant-weve-ever-seen/ There’s a new dwarf planet in our solar system, and it’s the most distant one we’ve ever discovered. The tiny world, formally known as 2018 VG18 but nicknamed Farout, is about 18 billion kilometres away – roughly 3.5 times the distance to Pluto. A team of astronomers discovered Farout using the Japanese Subaru telescope in Hawaii. Solar system objects like this are found by looking at a series of images of the same spot of sky for any dot that appears to be moving in comparison to the background stars. “I said ‘far out!’ when I discovered it, and it’s a very far out object,” says team member Scott Sheppard at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC. We don’t know much about Farout yet because of its extreme distance. The images showed that it is about 500 kilometres across, big enough for it to be a dwarf planet. It also appears to be a pinkish colour, which might indicate that it has an icy surface. We are really running out of names now.

Farout < The Goblin

Far out, dude

should have called it fallout https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/108619/e6220da8-c14d-4788-9219-38690c72db15/image.jpeg

tbh if we ever colonise it, farout would be a fucking cool name for the settlement

Bet it'll be really embarrassing if they find another dwarf planet even further out but still in the solar system.

Not exactly a fan of the name. That said, can anyone think of a good name from the Roman mythos that would be appropriate?

Periplectomenus, old man of Ephesus.

Should have been Outlands tbh.

Maybe Tartarus, since in the Greek/Roman myth it's described as a place far deeper than the underworld where Hades/Pluto resides.

Reminder that 'Farout' is just the nickname it's been given and not its official cosmological name. Hopefully this one gets another interesting name that isn't from Greco-Roman mythology, because Makemake and Haumea are cool as fuck names

Terminus, the god who watches over boundary markers would also be good I think. What with it being at the very edge of the solar system.

I do love the sound of Terminus.

Yeah until we find yet another dwarf planet further out. To be honest I think "half-wayout" might be a safer bet in this case.

furtherout

I guess it's an outer world

sorry todd, the outer worlds is all the rage these days, so this will be the outer world

Farout man

That’s what it was supposed to be called, but the guy who named it isn’t Chinese.

They should call it planet Bob

agreed, that way we'll have pluto, the goblin, and bob

If somewhere in the future we decide to colonize it we should rename it to Farout 76

So we spend 50 years hyping up Planet X only to call it the vegan version of "Jessica" when we find it? what the fuck?

That's pretty far out for a planet. Is it moving further away from us or is it coming closer to us?

Although I love the name Terminus, the two biggest dwarf planets we have now beyond Neptune, Pluto (God of the Underworld) and Eris (Goddess of Strife, appropriate for the divisive discussion about how to designate Pluto), are both Greek, not Roman. As such, my personal suggestion would be Hermes. He is the messenger god, here to potentially help foretell the presence of Planet X based on it's trajectory, and he is also the god of boundary transgression and travellers, a solid representation of both the distance to them, the breaking of expected limitations of distance and the communicative relationship between the planetary disc and the solar system that lies beyond.

They should name it Doris

Tubular!

Pluto is actually a Roman name for the Greek god Hades. So is Mercury for Hermes. Romans adopted many Greek gods into their own pantheon, only changing their names to fit within their language.

The Roman pantheon is almost entirely composed of foreign mythos'. The Romans assimilated basically any polytheistic god they liked into their own religion.

Hmm, that is true, Mercury and Hermes technically are the same individual, and that this would demerit usage . . . Perhaps Chronos, due to his association with the unraveling of time, associated with the chaos (not to be confused with Chaos) of Planet Nine/X's near ejection?