Renee O'Connor (Gabrielle from "Xena") talks astronomy

At Comic Con 2008, I got a brief interview in with actress Renee O'Connor -- she played Gabrielle in "Xena, Warrior Princess" -- about the outer solar system object that was named after her character.

I wrote about this topic on my blog at http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/09/13/xena-no-more/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• xena
• gabrielle
• Renee O'Connor
• solar system
• astronomy
• Comic con

[simpleplanrockin]

lol how cute

a planet named Xena and the moon named Gabrielle

i agree, they should have kept the names.

[thehollowing]

WOW! I used to love Xena back in the 90s! I remember having such a crush on Gabrielle. She still looks so beautiful.

[hanny184]

ich war feüher in die verknallt.

[elliotburing87]

Wow.. she pulled a Alyson Hannigan.. hot in the 90's... HOTTER in the the 2000's

[Skeletorfingers]

renee o'connor continues to become increasingly more hot over time

[track818]

Who CARES ABOUT SCIENTIFIC NAMES?! Xena as the planet and Gabrielle as the moon is PERFECT!!! Xena's gravitational pull keeps Gabrielle within distance to her, although not pulling her in completely, quite like the facade that the producers had made of the relationship between those two the entire freaking series. They should have had one scene where both, WILLINGLY and awake kissed. Subtext to Maintext baby =)

Planet is to Moon as Xena is to Gabrielle

[zomba]

Arrrr, it's such a load of BS that the names were changed.. DX How lousy.

....P.S. Renee is just as lovely as ever. <3

[StaticH4X]

@SmallSkaterFreak Really? I thought she looked pretty much the same lol

[kissepus]

I love Renee soooo much!! she's so sweet an amazing!!!

and yeh I am always gonna remember them as Xena and Gabrielle, screw the other names! I have already forgotten what they were!

[SmallSkaterFreak]

damn she aged weird.... i still love her from xena :DD

[littleone2813]

does anyone know where this video was shot

Michelle

Naples Florida

[KatchooFrancine]

It's a shame that Micheal Brown & his team, the scientists who discovered the planet & moon, & named them Xena & Gabrielle, was not allowed by TPTB (insert name of Astronomical Society here) to choose the NAME of the planet! After all, HE found it! AND it's not like X & G wouldn't fit in with the names of the other planets, which are, after all, named after mythological characters!!