Sorry if this has been talked to death, but I hope to get some traction on this topic.

What do you consider the most important individual bodies of the solar system?
And, if you were to rename the major bodies of the solar system, what names might you give?

I must say, I like consistency, and this abandonment of the Latin naming convention is kind of sickening. Latin is a major basis of the English language as well as the Romance languages. It has a natural significance to us. If we should use other language forms, it would seem we wouldn't be using island names that are representative of a small group of now-vanished people far out at sea. Not that they are bad, but they may be too far off from our current experience and given names. I realize many names may be taken already. Perhaps they should have been reserved in the first place for greater astronomical entities. I think we should either consider them open for reappropriation, or use names that represent larger portions of the world and history.

I'd really love to hear any ideas someone might have on this! I really don't know anything about the dwarf planet candidates, though, and can't tell which might be really good candidates.

Here is what I would do..

Keep the usual identifications..
Sol (Apollo)
Mercury
Venus
Terra (Gaia)
Luna (Diana)
Mars
Vesta
Ceres (I don't understand why an asteroid would represent agriculture, unless you consider the asteroid "field")
Pallas
Hygiea
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto

Old: Haumea
New: Cybele
Cybele is a mother goddess, like Haumea, current name of this egg-shaped dwarf planet. Two moons remind of her two chariot lions.

Old: Makemake
New: Minerva
Minerva is owl-like, which reminds of the color of this bright dwarf planet. Makemake was a bird-man.

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Eris
...?