The names of the planets are not the result of arbitrary choice but the planets name themselves. TWM 439.

And three others which must remain nameless (Pluto and the two hidden planets. A.A.B.) were the heavenly bodies in direct astral and psychic communication - morally and physically - with the Earth, its Guides and Watchers. S.D. Vol. I, 628. EA. 1951.

Five other Lives express themselves through five planets, of which two remain to be discovered.

Pluto

Neptune

The Earth

Undiscovered

Undiscovered EA 650.

JC: Two hidden/undiscovered planets until recently:

1. Sedna: official name 2003 VB12. "What some claim is the 10th in the Solar System." Reported March 2004. No satellite yet discovered.

2. Xena: 'Discovery of the 10th planet to orbit our Sun.’ Designated 2003 UB313, it is about 3,000km across, a world of rock and ice and somewhat larger than Pluto. First seen October 2003. 11th planet JC.

Astrologers must remember also that there are several undiscovered planets which are producing pulls and shifts and focusing streams of energy upon our earth which tend to complicate the problem still further.

Pluto is one of them, and having now emerged into manifestation (or rather into recognition) to it will be assigned all the unexplained conditions. Pluto will be made the scapegoat for faulty astrology for a long time to come. This chart failed to work and be true because Pluto must be influential in it and we know little about Pluto. So the story will run. Yet Pluto has always been revolving around our sun and producing its effects.

It governs however the death or cessation of old ideas and emotions, and its influence is therefore largely cerebral and in that you have the clue to its late discovery. Mankind is only on the verge of becoming mental. Its effects are felt first in the mental body.

The names of the planets are not the result of arbitrary choice but the planets name themselves. TWM 439.

"Early one day we decided it was appropriate to name any objects out of this region after Arctic mythology"

bbc.news 17 March, 2004.

Sedna, named unofficially after the Inuit goddess of the sea, is the latest in a string of icy objects approaching the size of Pluto discovered in the outer reaches of the Solar System.

Sedna is believed to be about three-quarters of the size of Pluto, based on measurements of light reflected from its surface detected by telescopes on Earth.

Distant and faint, Sedna is causing a stir:

Many astronomers, including Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology, who led the team that discovered Sedna, admit it is not a true planet, preferring to describe it as a planetoid - somewhere between a planet and an asteroid.

But like other objects found in recent months that inhabit the band of cosmic debris beyond the Inner Solar System, the Kuiper Belt, it is much bigger than a typical asteroid.

Some believe it is only a matter of time before another such body is found which dwarfs Pluto.

Reclassifying Pluto is one way to solve the dilemma. When it was discovered in 1930 it was thought to be much bigger - and thus more planet-like - than it really is.

However, the astronomical community will not take kindly to the idea of downgrading Pluto's status. The last time it was suggested, in 1999, it caused an uproar.

bbc.news 16 March, 2004,

How do planets get their names?

Sedna is 900 times further from the Sun than the Earth

'New planet' may have a moon 

Nasa-funded scientists have found what could be the tenth planet in our Solar System. They've called it Sedna. So how do planets get their names?

When astronomers at the California Institute of Technology plumped for Sedna, it was not a decision taken lightly.

They named it after the Inuit goddess of the sea who, according to some versions of her story, was thrown into Arctic waters by her father.

It seems appropriately chilly, as the team believes Sedna's surface temperature does not get above minus 240 degrees Celsius, because it can be up to 84 billion miles from the Sun - 900 times further than the Earth.

There is, however, some debate about whether the scientists actually have the authority to decide a name.

The planets in our Solar System, and many of their moons and smaller minor planets, are named according to Greek and Roman mythology.

Venus, for example, was named after the Roman god of love because it was considered the most beautiful planet. Mars was named after the Roman god of war because of its blood red colour.

Arctic mythology:

Announcing the name Sedna, Dr Mike Brown, leader of the research team, said: "We knew it could end up being the coldest, most distant object in the entire Solar System.

***Early one day we decided it was appropriate to name any objects out of this region after Arctic mythology***

Dr Mike Brown, California Institute of Technology 

"Early one day we decided it was appropriate to name any objects out of this region after Arctic mythology."

Dr Brown suggested it should also be considered a "planetoid" rather than a true planet because it is so small - about 1,000 miles in diameter.

Regardless of whether the proposed name is any good, it must now go before the International Astronomical Union, whose job it is to decide officially what planets are called.

Brian Marsden, an astronomer and secretary of the IAU's naming board, told one US newspaper it was a violation of protocol to announce a name and assume it would be accepted.

He said: "Other members of the committee might vote against it because the name was brought forward in this manner."

Georgian Sidus

If the IAU opposed the name it would not be the first time astronomers had been overruled.

There are only so many names from classical mythology that you can have, so you need another source

Peter Bond, Royal Astronomical Society 

Eighteenth century astronomer Herschel tried to name Uranus "Georgian Sidus" after George III, his patron.

He was unsuccessful and the planet was eventually named by Johann Bode in 1781, after the father of Saturn.

If the IAU's appropriate panel does agree with the name Sedna, it will be passed on to its Minor Planet Centre, for official use.

Until then, as widely used as the term Sedna may be, its official name will be 2003 VB12.

The serial number comes from a system used by astronomers to denote the year, month and approximate date that celestial bodies are found.

Inclusive names :

Despite the prospect of a row over the name Sedna between scientists and officials, Peter Bond of the Royal Astronomical Society believes there is a good chance it will be accepted.

He says: "There are only so many names from classical mythology that you can have, so you need another source."

Mr Bond adds that there is a move away from traditional names, to try to make astronomy more inclusive of all races and cultures.

"The Earth is a planet which we're all on - floating through space - not just the Americans and whoever else has the technology to scan the skies."

bbc.news April, 2004.

Sedna, the Solar System's farthest known object, does not have a moon, puzzled astronomers have revealed.

Its slow spin was thought to be due to the gravity of a small, companion body.

Researchers have now discounted this but say the unexpected finding may offer clues to the origin and evolution of objects on the Solar System's edge.

Sedna's discovery announced on 15 March led to huge excitement and an argument among scientists over whether the small world could be classified as a planet.

'Completely baffled'

Co-discoverer Mike Brown, of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), US, was so convinced at first that Sedna had a satellite that the artist's concept of the object commissioned to accompany the announcement included a hypothetical moon.

  This is outside the realm of expectation and makes Sedna even more interesting

Mike Brown, Caltech 

Brown's belief was based on the fact that Sedna appears to have a very slow rotation, which could best be explained by the gravitational pull of a companion body.

Almost all other small, solitary objects in the Solar System - such as asteroids and comets - complete a spin in a matter of hours.

The revelation that Sedna has no satellite in orbit has now raised new questions for the Caltech researcher.

"I'm completely baffled at the absence of a moon," he said. "This is outside the realm of expectation and makes Sedna even more interesting. But I simply don't know what it means."

Spinning slowly:

Immediately following the announcement of the discovery of Sedna, astronomers turned the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) towards the new planetoid to search for the expected companion moon.

The space telescope was required because the turbulence of the Earth's atmosphere makes Sedna's image unstable to ground-based telescopes.

Hubble gets a sharper view than ground-based telescopes

The Hubble picture, taken on 16 March with its Advanced Camera for Surveys, shows only the single object, Sedna, along with a faint, very distant background star in the same field of view.

"Despite HST's crisp view (equivalent to trying to see a football 1,500km away), it still cannot resolve the disc of mysterious Sedna," Brown said.

But Hubble's view does place an upper limit on Sedna's size of approximately three-quarters the diameter of Pluto - about 1,600km.

Brown had expected the predicted satellite to be visible as a small dot in Hubble's image.

The object is not there - although there is a very small chance it was behind Sedna or transiting in front of it, so it could not be seen separately.

Slow movers:

The rotation of Sedna had been calculated from earlier observations of periodic changes in light reflecting from the object.

The light curve gives a long rotation period exceeding 20 days (but not greater than 50 days).

If true, this would make Sedna the slowest-rotating object in the Solar System after Mercury and Venus, whose slow rotation rates are due to the tidal influence of the Sun.

One easy way out of this dilemma is the possibility that the rotation period is not as slow as the astronomers think.

But Brown's team is convinced the calculations are correct. He said: "I'm completely lost for an explanation as to why the object rotates so slowly."

Pluto's rotation has been slowed to a relatively leisurely six-day period because it is tidally locked to the revolution period of its satellite, Charon.

30 July 2005.

Astronomers detect '10th planet' 

By Dr David Whitehouse

Science Editor BBC news website 

The new planet has a highly inclined orbit:

Astronomers in the United States have announced the discovery of the 10th planet to orbit our Sun.

The largest object found in our Solar System since Neptune was discovered in 1846, it was first seen in 2003 but has only now been confirmed as a planet.

Designated 2003 UB313, it is about 3,000km across, a world of rock and ice and somewhat larger than Pluto.

Scientists say it is three times as far away as Pluto, in an orbit at an angle to the orbits of the other planets.

Astronomers think that at some point in its history, Neptune likely flung it into its highly-inclined 44-degree orbit.

It is currently 97 Earth-Sun distances away - more than twice Pluto's average distance from the Sun.

Bigger than Pluto:

Its discoverers are Michael Brown of Caltech, Chad Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii, and David Rabinowitz of Yale University.

It's not every day that you find something Pluto-sized or larger!

Chad Trujillo

David Rabinowitz told the BBC News website: "It has been a remarkable day and a remarkable year. 2003 UB313 is probably larger than Pluto. It is fainter than Pluto, but three times farther away.

"Brought to the same distance from the Sun as Pluto, it would be brighter. So today, the world knows that Pluto is not unique. There are other Plutos, just farther out in the Solar System where they are a little harder to find."

It was picked up using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory and the 8m Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea.

Slow mover:

Chad Trujillo told the BBC News website: "I feel extremely lucky to be part of a discovery as exciting as this. It's not every day that you find something Pluto-sized or larger!"

"The spectra that we took at the Gemini Observatory are particularly interesting because it shows that the surface of 2003 UB313 is very similar to that of Pluto."

The object was first observed on 21 October 2003, but the team did not see it move in the sky until looking at the same area 15 months later on 8 January 2005.

The researchers say they tried looking for it with the Spitzer Space Telescope, which is sensitive to heat radiation, but failed to detect it.

This gives them an upper limit of its size of 3,000 km, they say. The lower limit still makes it larger than Pluto.

The discovery of 2003 UB313 comes just after the announcement of the finding of 2003 EL61, which appears to be a little smaller than Pluto.

JPC.