Sentences with phrase «propose planet names»
Eventually, the IAU decided to allow the public to propose planet names.
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The last time something was called «dark» in physics was in the mid-1800s, when Urbain - Jean - Joseph Leverrier of France proposed an unseen dark planet, which he named Vulcan.
For now, however, the sole vote I could cast in confidence from the IAU's selection would go to a proposed name for the planet - hosting pulsar PSR 1257 +12: «Hubris.»
For instance, the IAU states that it is not allowed to propose the same name for a host star and a planet around it, yet one entry for the planetary system of Tau Boötis suggests calling both the star and its planet «Alfraganus.»