IAU: Sign up to name the new exoplanets

[Perspicuo]

Name ExoWorlds
http://nameexoworlds.org/

International Astronomical Union
NameExoWorlds

Help decide the names of planets orbiting other stars

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To vote, sign up, and we’ll let you know when we’re ready for you!

I don't know if this is legitimate, but it would be great if it were.

 

[Kharakov]

Found this (I was wondering if it was legit as well), on nytimes website:

[h=1]Plan to Liven Official Naming of Stars and Planets Hits Clunky Notes[/h]
Fred seems like an awesome name for a planet, although I tend to want to name dogs and planets Fred.

 

[Perspicuo]

I would prefer people with a certain level of culture to name them. If the planet is on a star belonging to a constellation named after something, that the planets have something to do with that.

For example, planets around stars in Aquarius (α Aquaril, β Aquaril, and so on) be given names suggestive of water, pitchers, wells. Another possibility is, since names for water-themed concepts can be limited (and after a number of them, boring), α Aquaril is also called Sadalmelik, "named in Arabic for the phrase "the lucky stars of the king"" (cit.), which gives crown (corona, diadema), Shah (Parsi for king), etc.

Ah, wishful thinking.

 

[Malintent]

I would prefer people with a certain level of culture to name them. If the planet is on a star belonging to a constellation named after something, that the planets have something to do with that.

For example, planets around stars in Aquarius (α Aquaril, β Aquaril, and so on) be given names suggestive of water, pitchers, wells. Another possibility is, since names for water-themed concepts can be limited (and after a number of them, boring), α Aquaril is also called Sadalmelik, "named in Arabic for the phrase "the lucky stars of the king"" (cit.), which gives crown (corona, diadema), Shah (Parsi for king), etc.

Ah, wishful thinking.

They already have constelation-based names today. (Earth would be Sol-3, right?). I wonder what constelation Sol is in, lol... If the star doesn't have a familiar name, then it is based on the brighness of the star within it's constelation. in your example, α Aquarius would be the brightest star in aquarius. It's "exoplanet" that orbits closest to that star would be "Alpha Aquarius 1".. now, if they are assigning familiar names to these planets, wouldn;t they want a familiar name for the star first? "Alpha Aquarius" is actually called "Sadalmelik".. so that planet would actually be more familiarly named Sadalmelik-1

 

[il Palazzo]

Didn't they already do this before?

http://xkcd.com/1253/

 

[Kharakov]

Fred. All planets outside of our solar system should be named Fred. They can have different names, but the name Fred will designate they are outside of our solar system.

Not only is Fred an awesome name, Fred Hoyle came up with the Big Bang name. So we should name all planets Fred.

 

[Perspicuo]

Fred. All planets outside of our solar system should be named Fred. They can have different names, but the name Fred will designate they are outside of our solar system.

Not only is Fred an awesome name, Fred Hoyle came up with the Big Bang name. So we should name all planets Fred.

What in the fred are you talking about? That's fredatic talk.

 

[Kharakov]

Fred this. I'm going to take this up with Brainy Fred, after I go fred some fredberries.