Name
Under the guidelines of the International Astronomical Union's naming conventions, objects with a similar size and orbit to that of Pluto are named after underworld deities. Accordingly, the discoverers suggested naming the object after Orcus, a god of the dead in Etruscan and Roman mythology. The name was also a private reference to the homonymous Orcas Island, where Brown's wife Diane had lived as a child and which they visit frequently. Orcus was approved and published on November 22, 2004.
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