Last but not least!
Vinnie - [tpeano29 at hotmail dot com]
posted @ Sun, Oct 29, 2017 11:59:51 pm EDT from 172.14.186.123

Just want to say, I love where the countdown theme led us this week.
Ross
posted @ Sun, Oct 29, 2017 8:31:12 pm EDT from 68.38.23.162

I just checked, and there's an asteroid named "Una".
Todd Jensen
Hufflepuffs are really good finders
posted @ Thu, Oct 26, 2017 10:15:12 pm EDT from 24.251.84.117

Well Taurus shares the name with the constellation as for the others well:
Boreas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916_Boreas

Proteus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteus_(moon)

Helios: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/895_Helio

Kiron or at least Chiron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2060_Chiron
Matthew
Muscles fade and the mind dulls.But as long as the heart is willing, strength remains.
posted @ Thu, Oct 26, 2017 9:55:56 pm EDT from 64.85.226.62

Since classical mythology is the most common source of names for planets, moons, and asteroids, it might be worth looking through the bodies in the solar system to see if any of them share names with the New Olympians (besides the obvious case of the constellation Taurus - whose stars are outside the solar system, anyway, and thus don't count).
Todd Jensen
Hufflepuffs are really good finders
posted @ Thu, Oct 26, 2017 8:20:51 pm EDT from 24.251.84.117

Algernon> Well hey, there we go! Guess the solar system has all the Weird Sisters accounted for, then.
Ross
posted @ Thu, Oct 26, 2017 4:14:53 pm EDT from 68.38.23.162

ROSS> Ask and ye shall receive!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/580_Selene
Algernon
I guard your death
posted @ Thu, Oct 26, 2017 4:02:17 pm EDT from 109.77.200.34

Just remembered another moon that shares a name with a Gargoyles character: Phoebe, one of the outermost of Saturn's moons. Can't believe I almost forgot that one, guess I was thinking more Shakespeare names instead of mythology-inspired ones. (Luna could also kind of apply to Earth's moon - at least, I've seen it called that in stuff where Earth is referred to as 'Terra'. Don't think there's a Selene anywhere, though.)
Ross
posted @ Thu, Oct 26, 2017 3:23:50 pm EDT from 68.38.23.162

Of course, we could just jump into tinfoil hat country and claim ninth for "Nibiru".
Spen
posted @ Thu, Oct 26, 2017 2:19:16 pm EDT from 173.30.247.216

23 years, wow. Hard to believe I was just a wee lad of 6 when it first came around.

Nice to get an astronomy discussion, haven't covered that subject since college. I particularly like the themes that went into each planet's moons. Like how most of Jupiter's were named after people Zeus screwed with (sometimes literally).
Matthew
Muscles fade and the mind dulls.But as long as the heart is willing, strength remains.
posted @ Wed, Oct 25, 2017 8:48:34 pm EDT from 64.85.226.62

However, they ARE all named after characters from works of those two combined. The aforementioned Ariel, Umbriel, and Belinda are all from Pope while the other 24 known moons are all Shakespearean with The Tempest being the greatest contributor even without Ariel included (Caliban, Ferdinand, Francisco, Miranda, Prospero, Setebos, Stephano, Sycorax, and Trinculo).
Brainiac - [OSUBrainiac at gmail dot com]
There is balance in all things. Live in symmetry with the world around you. If you must blow things up and steal from those around you, THAT'S WHAT RPGS ARE FOR!
posted @ Wed, Oct 25, 2017 11:11:06 am EDT from 165.225.38.191

Not all of them. As I mentioned in my last post, the third and fourth moons were named after characters in Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" (Ariel and Umbriel). A later moon discovered was named after Belinda, the heroine of the poem.
Todd Jensen
Hufflepuffs are really good finders
posted @ Wed, Oct 25, 2017 8:44:22 am EDT from 24.251.84.117

Uranus' moons are all named for Shakespeare characters, I believe.
Paul - [nampahcfluap at yahoo dot com]
posted @ Wed, Oct 25, 2017 8:14:48 am EDT from 73.168.138.126

ROSS - Thanks. I really need to memorize the list of Uranus's moons someday.

I was thinking of them all the more because I read that today was the anniversary of two of those moons being discovered in 1851. One was named Ariel, not after the character from "The Tempest" but from a fairy-like being in Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" (though Pope might have named his character after Shakespeare's Ariel); the other Umbriel, after a gnome in Pope's same poem. Presumably the namer had decided to follow the pattern begun by the first two moons that had been discovered (the ones named after Oberon and Titania), and use names for fairy-folk in English literature.
Todd Jensen
Hufflepuffs are really good finders
posted @ Tue, Oct 24, 2017 11:35:20 pm EDT from 24.251.84.117

Tenth in the name of Eris and all other trans-Neptunian celestial bodies!

(In my eyes Pluto will always, at the very least, be the honorary ninth planet, retroactive definitions of the term 'planet' be darned!)

Todd> There is a Uranian moon named Desdemona, though of course that was technically never Coldfire's name. For non-gargoyle characters, there's also Puck and Mab, among a variety of other Shakespearean characters that will probably show up eventually in some form (The Tempest is particularly popular in that regard).
Ross
posted @ Tue, Oct 24, 2017 9:13:16 pm EDT from 68.38.23.162

Ninth in the name of - oh, yes, Pluto's been demoted to a dwarf planet, so we'll have to come up with something else for "Ninth" and "Tenth".

Pity we skipped Uranus for seventh, since two of its moons are named after Oberon and Titania. (To the best of my knowledge, no moons or other celestial bodies in the solar system share names with any of the gargoyles.)
Todd Jensen
Hufflepuffs are really good finders
posted @ Tue, Oct 24, 2017 8:29:37 pm EDT from 24.251.84.117

Eighth in the name of Neptune! Happy Gargoyles day, everyone!
Spen
posted @ Tue, Oct 24, 2017 3:37:30 pm EDT from 173.30.247.216

Happy anniversary Gargoyles!
Gorebash
posted @ Tue, Oct 24, 2017 11:22:17 am EDT from 204.144.15.9

SIXTH and Happy Anniversary!

Today marks TWENTY-THREE years since "Awakening: Part One" first aired. 2017 also marked (back in March) TEN years since "Invitation Only" -- our first dose of truly new canon since the original series ended. A bummer that it's been so long since new stories, but it was still awesome to have seen those 18 issues from the SLG run in the first place.

**grabs glass from cookie table** A toast to everyone -- crew, cast, and fan -- that keeps the love for this series going.
Phoenician
"I know how to wait." - Hudson
posted @ Tue, Oct 24, 2017 3:00:03 am EDT from 68.231.125.58

I Jupiter, Lord of the Heavens, Fifth planet from the sun.
Algernon
I guard your death
posted @ Mon, Oct 23, 2017 4:38:48 pm EDT from 109.77.243.148

I am Mars, Bringer of War, Fourth Planet from the Sun.
Matthew
Muscles fade and the mind dulls.But as long as the heart is willing, strength remains.
posted @ Mon, Oct 23, 2017 3:46:06 pm EDT from 98.210.213.66

Phoebe, Luna, and Selene.
Paul - [nampahcfluap at yahoo dot com]
posted @ Mon, Oct 23, 2017 1:13:34 pm EDT from 73.168.138.126

Still not seconding that violence, Vinnie.

Masterdramon> Yeah, I'm not sure how the Cloak and Dagger rights play out given all the legal madness plus their sometimes mutant, sometimes not depiction. That's part of why I say Martin Li could work; Mister Negative I'd be a little more hesitant about without the duo as well.
Brainiac - [OSUBrainiac at gmail dot com]
There is balance in all things. Live in symmetry with the world around you. If you must blow things up and steal from those around you, THAT'S WHAT RPGS ARE FOR!
posted @ Mon, Oct 23, 2017 11:05:27 am EDT from 165.225.38.191

First over all but still #1 with a bullet!
Vinnie - [tpeano29 at hotmail dot com]
posted @ Mon, Oct 23, 2017 12:13:19 am EDT from 172.14.186.123