My young-YA/middle-grade fantasy Fireboy, already a finalist for Best Young Adult Novel in this year’s Aurora Awards and finalist for a 2027 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award in the Northern Lights Division, has just been …
Had a great time being part of the cast of Regina Lyric Musical Theatre‘s production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. I played Fogg (the insane asylum keeper) and also sang in …
My young-YA/middle-grade fantasy Fireboy, a nominee for Best Young Adult Novel in this year’s Aurora Awards, is also a finalist for the 2027 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award in the Northern Lights Division. This is …
I’m thrilled to announce that I’m up for two Aurora Awards this year! Fireboy is on the ballot for Best Young Adult Novel, and The Worldshapers is once again on the ballot for Best Fan …
I spent a good chunk of today at Wordbridge, the annual writers’ conference in Lethbridge, Alberta. My main reason for coming was to launch a Shadowpaw Press title (Broken Realm by Jenna Greene, a Lethbridge …
This is Easter weekend; last weekend, I sang in the Easter concert of First Baptist Church here in Regina as a guest soloist and chorister. The whole concert is worth listening to, but if you’d …
Previous
Next
A 10th planet?
The recently discovered body known as Xena, which lies even further from the sun than Pluto, is bigger than Pluto–and therefore has as much or more right to be called a planet as Pluto does.
Guess I’ll have to tack “Xena” on to my “Mother Very Eagerly Made A Jelly Sandwich Under No Protest” method of remembering the order the planets.
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2006/02/a-10th-planet/
1 comment
There was another KBO Kuiper Belt Object found a few years back and it’s round too and named something like Quaoar after an Inuit legend I think. Everyone seemed to forget about it when Xena came along.