New Planet Names List
Not many planets have an actual name most simply have a code assigned to them.
New planet names list. Venus the warmest planet. It has one natural satellite the moon. Name originates from die erde the german word for the ground diameter. The iau s names for exoplanets and on most occasions their host stars are chosen by the executive committee working group ecwg on public naming of planets and planetary satellites a group working parallel with the working group on star names wgsn.
Nasa challenged twitter to help come up with names for the recently discovered planets of the trappist 1 system with creative results. For a list of planets in the solar system see. The list of exoplanets detected by the kepler space telescope contains bodies with a wide variety of properties with significant ranges in orbital distances masses radii composition habitability and host star type as of january 2015 the kepler space telescope and its follow up observations have detected 2 300 confirmed planets including hot jupiters super earths circumbinary planets. Earth the only planet that is known to have life.
The planet zips around the sun at more than 18 miles per second 29 km per second. This name generator will generate 10 random names for planets. 7 926 miles 12 760 km orbit. The new names for the planet hd 30856 b nakambé and its star hd 30856 mouhoun refer to the local names for prominent rivers in burkina faso.
The ecwg s rules for naming exoplanets are. But by using those planets that do have a name as well as a little inspiration from popular works of fiction this generator will generate randomized names similar to these existing planets. List of gravitationally rounded objects of the solar system for a list of objects in the solar system once but no longer considered planets see. List of former planets for a list of objects in the solar system including planets that have been or are believed to exist but either have not been proven or have been disproven see.
Proper names of stars chosen by the ecwg are explicitly recognised by the wgsn. Mercury the planet with the second highest temperature in the solar system and the closest planet to the sun. Sometimes called earth s twin because venus and earth are very similar. Fittingly the system lies in the.
On 30 july the world learned of a new addition to our solar system a tenth planet the distant body will receive a name most probably the as yet undisclosed suggestion made.