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For a period of time, the object became known to the wider public as Xena. "Xena" was an informal name used internally by the discovery team, inspired by the title character of the television series Xena: Warrior Princess. The discovery team had reportedly saved the nickname "Xena" for the first body they discovered that was larger than Pluto.
The object's nickname "Xena" was used in the press. New Scientist magazine polled the public on their preferred final name for the so-called tenth planet; "Xena" ranked number 4. [59] Lawless called Brown in December 2005 to thank him for his "senseless act of beauty", and claimed that she "never dared hope [the name] would stick". [60]
Xena has extensive knowledge of first aid and herbal remedies that rivals any professional healer. Xena's signature weapon is the chakram, a razor-edged throwing weapon which she often uses for ranged combat. [26] Xena can skillfully deflect the chakram off the surfaces it strikes, allowing her to hit multiple targets in one throw.
Dysnomia (formally (136199) Eris I Dysnomia) is the only known moon of the dwarf planet Eris and is the second-largest known moon of a dwarf planet, after Pluto I Charon.It was discovered in September 2005 by Mike Brown and the Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics (LGSAO) team at the W. M. Keck Observatory.
Planet V, a planet thought by John Chambers and Jack Lissauer to have once existed between Mars and the asteroid belt, based on computer simulations. Various planets beyond Neptune: Planet Nine, a planet proposed to explain apparent alignments in the orbits of a number of distant trans-Neptunian objects. Planet X, a hypothetical planet beyond ...
Brown's team famously named Eris and its moon Dysnomia with the informal names Xena and Gabrielle, respectively, after the two main characters of Xena: Warrior Princess. Together with Jean-Luc Margot in 2001, he also discovered Romulus and Linus , two minor-planet moons in the asteroid belt .
Xena is the main character of Xena: Warrior Princess. Xena may also be used for: Xena (software), archiving software; Xēna or Lisa Fischer, R&B musician; Xena, a former, informal name that was used for the dwarf planet Eris; Xena, Saskatchewan, an unincorporated area in Canada; Xena (genus), a fly genus
28978 Ixion (/ ɪ k ˈ s aɪ. ə n /, provisional designation 2001 KX 76) is a large trans-Neptunian object and a possible dwarf planet.It is located in the Kuiper belt, a region of icy objects orbiting beyond Neptune in the outer Solar System.