Sexy New Planet Discovered!

[JamesSavik]

"Sex c" New Planet Discovered

 

Aug. 10, 2010

 

Source Link: National Geographic

 

An artist's impression of a Jupiter-like exoplanet.

 

[Arpeggio]

Name it Lacey!

 

^~^

[Hylas]

Earth is actually Sol c... and Mars is of course... Sol d

 

LOL

 

That is of course, if we apply the same convention. Astronomers, sadly, are less imaginative. Simply naming them after the first letters. Earth is... simply E. :[

 

I quite fancy the sci-fi convention of star + roman numerals + letters, starting with the satellite closest to the barycentre. Earth would then be Sol III, and the Moon Sol IIIa. Though I guess it would be problematic for binary planets like the Pluto/Charon system. Heh

[Hamen Cheese]

I say we just all call them rocks. I mean when they eventually collide with our planet, would you really care what it's called?

[phana14]

I say we just all call them rocks. I mean when they eventually collide with our planet, would you really care what it's called?

Ok! I finally slowed down with the laughing enough to respond to you, Hamen Cheese.

That was a VERY humorous!