Why did they named Pluto Pluto?

Answer 1

It was in the tradition of ancient people to name the stars and planets after their gods and goddesses; the Roman Empire lasted the longest and was the most well remembered and modern people have continued naming planets, moons, and stars after ancient deities.

As to why Pluto/Hades specifically... Pluto is a cold, dreary place, and in Greco-Roman mythology the underworld was similarly cold and gloomy. Also, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto were regarded by the Romans as a bit of a troika; Zeus ruled the air, Neptune the sea, and Pluto the Earth (as in the underground part of it). Pluto was therefore one of the most prominent/prestigious Roman gods not to already have a planet or other celestial object named for him.

Answer 2

Pluto (Greek: Πλούτων, Ploutōn) was the ruler of the underworld in classical mythology.

The name Pluto was proposed by Venetia Burney (1918-2009), then an eleven-year-old schoolgirl in Oxford, England. Burney was interested in classical mythologyas well as astronomy, and considered the name, a name for the god of the underworld, appropriate for such a presumably dark and cold world. She suggested it in a conversation with her grandfather Falconer Madan, a former librarian at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library. Madan passed the name to Professor Herbert Hall Turner, who then cabled it to colleagues in the United States.

The object was officially named on March 24, 1930. Each member of the Lowell Observatory was allowed to vote on a short-list of three: Minerva (which was already the name for an asteroid), Cronus (which had lost reputation through being proposed by the unpopular astronomer Thomas Jefferson Jackson See), and Pluto. Pluto received every vote. The name was announced on May 1, 1930. Upon the announcement, Madan gave Venetia five pounds (£5) (£234 as of 2012),] as a reward.

Venetia named it when she was a young girl. When interviewed about it she said, "I just thought it was a name that hadn't been used so far, and might be an obvious one to have."

Answer 3

Pluto was named by an 11-year-old girl named Venetia Burney in 1930. She suggested the name to her grandfather who was a librarian at Oxford University. He passed the suggestion along to the Lowell Observatory, where the new planet was discovered, and they liked it. Pluto was the Roman god of the underworld, which seemed fitting for the distant and mysterious nature of the new planet.

Answer 4

Because Uranium was named after Uranus so they decided to name Neptunium after the next planet -Neptune and so Plutonium was the next obvious choice for element 94.

Answer 5

The name Pluto was proposed by Venetia Burney (1918-2009), an eleven-year-old schoolgirl in Oxford, England.

Answer 6

Pluto is the Roman name for the Greek God Hades. Pluto means 'Rich One'. Hades is not only the God of the dead and the Lord of the Underworld. But he is also the God of riches and wealth.

Answer 7

it was named after a god named Pluto