• Question: WHAT DID YOU NAME THE PLANET YOU DISCOVERED?

    Asked by asiagurung to Vicky, Jim, Scott, Adrian, Gaia on 9 Mar 2016. This question was also asked by _Jay, HazzieTheBear.
    • Photo: Jim Barrett

      Jim Barrett answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Unfortunately you don’t get to name these things, they get named by some boring letters. I don’t think my planet even has a name yet.

    • Photo: Scott Lawrie

      Scott Lawrie answered on 11 Mar 2016:

      Hey Asiagurung, I remember you were asking lots of great questions in the live chat! There are so many planets being discovered (nearly 2000 at the moment!) that we can’t think of names for all of them. Also, if a planet turns out not all that interesting and we never visit it, why bother naming it? You want to save the good names (Tatooine, Alderaan, Hoth, Vulcan, Kronos…) for the planets you’re really interested in 😀 For now, they’re just given numbers in order of discovery 😕

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