> I am wondering, who makes up these names?
> All names up to Neptune make sense (except Earth of course), but Pluto and
> Sedna... Are the mountains on Sedna Andes-like or something?

Pluto is (was?) the Roman god of the underworld.

Sedna is the Inuit Goddess of the sea.

More on Sedna (new version)

        http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/03/16/PLANET.TMP

& if "Earth" isn't intuitive as a name you're in trouble :-)


                RM

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