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I received another surprise when I asked how many planets were represented by the spheres. He answered in a matter-of fact manner that there were ten.
S: I will give them their Roman names which you probably are very familiar with . They are known by many names, but these are possibly the most familiar. (He spoke slowly as though thinking.) To the inside is Mercury and Venus or Mathusias (phonetic) and Terra and Mars and Jupiter and Saturn… Let’s see, after Saturn comes Urana and Neptune and Pluto. And out past Pluto there is one called – let’s see, I believe they gave it the name of Juna. Whose idea it was to name them after these, I have no idea. I think that is all of them . I know there are ten.
Juna, the one out past the farthest, they say that it has a very erratic orbit. It is not elipt, but swings in and out, and does a kind of a loop around Pluto. It takes a great deal of time to complete its orbit.
OAHSPE Bible: Juno
Grok answer
Juno refers to asteroid 3 Juno (minor planet designation). It is a large asteroid in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
- Discovered in 1804 by Karl Ludwig Harding (third asteroid found).
- Initially considered a planet (like Ceres, Pallas, Vesta), but reclassified as an asteroid in the 1850s.
- The inner planets plus the early asteroids (Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta, Hebe, Isis, Astraea) on separate circular orbits.
- Diameter ≈ 247 km (irregular shape).
- Stony type (S-type), one of the largest of this class.
- Orbits the Sun in about 4.36 years.
No planet or major body carries the name Jena. There is asteroid 526 Jena, a smaller object in the asteroid belt, named after the German city of Jena. It was discovered in 1904.
NASA’s Juno mission is a spacecraft orbiting Jupiter (named after the Roman goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter), not a planet.
