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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

As the planets were named after Roman deities created specifically to shoehorn celestial objects into binary gender roles, I don’t think the Roman pantheon would be a good model for non-binary identities.

And then they had to go a step further reduce gender roles into being represented by just those two gods. It’s like we’re going backwards.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

The asteroid 2063 Bacchus because IIRC Bacchus (Dionysus)'s tales have some themes of gender non-conformity. But in a more serious tone, the Hellenistic mythologies used to have some gender non-binary figures such as the statues of Aphroditus, but the Latin-speaking Italian Romans generally took gender roles very seriously even before Christianisation, so you'll probably have to find some non-Latin astronomical object.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

the symbols for sun ☉ and earth 🜨 are pretty neat for that i think!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Saturn because it has a ring and that's cool

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Alpha Centauri maybe?

Thought to be a single star by the Greeks, but are a collection of many different stars in reality.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

The earth since it’s between Venus and Mars

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

LV-426 or G-435 for aces definitely.

Fr though maybe Saturn.