Twits! It isn’t up to NASA! According to Wikipedia: “The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is the officially recognized authority in astronomy for assigning designations to celestial bodies such as stars, planets, and minor planets, including any surface features on them. In response to the need for unambiguous names for astronomical objects, it has created a number of systematic naming systems for objects of various sorts.”
Nachikethass about 5 years ago
You really are out to get the Solar System, aren’t you, Greg?
M2MM about 5 years ago
Twits! It isn’t up to NASA! According to Wikipedia: “The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is the officially recognized authority in astronomy for assigning designations to celestial bodies such as stars, planets, and minor planets, including any surface features on them. In response to the need for unambiguous names for astronomical objects, it has created a number of systematic naming systems for objects of various sorts.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_naming_conventions
karmakat01 about 5 years ago
even her is going ‘WHY did I get myself into…AGAIN!’
LadyPeterW about 5 years ago
And in today’s educational system, you actually expect teenagers to know that???
DM2860 about 5 years ago
But Disney might want to name a planet Pluto.