Newly named planets - Name an exoplanet - 2019

[GroG79]

The International Astronomical Union (IUA) is celebrating their 100 year existence

They will do so by naming 100 known exoplanets. You can read more about that here:

International Astronomical Union | IAU

www.iau.org

The IAU is the authority responsible for assigning official designations and names to celestial bodies and now, while celebrating its first 100 years of fostering international collaboration (IAU100), it wishes to contribute to the fraternity of all people with a significant token of global identity. Following the first NameExoWorlds campaign, which named 31 exoplanets in 19 planetary systems in 2015, the IAU will now, within the framework of the IAU100 NameExoWorlds project, offer every country the chance to name one planetary system, comprising an exoplanet and its host star. Each nation's designated star is visible from that country, and sufficiently bright to be observed through small telescopes. This is only the second time in history that a campaign will lead to the naming of stars and exoplanets.

The list of exoplanets to be named can be found here:

List of stars and planets | NameExoworlds

www.nameexoworlds.iau.org

Dear Fdev,
Please integrate these new names into the game. The global results will be announced in December 2019 which might be just in time for the biggest Elite Dangerous update yet

 

[poisoner]

Hi.
I just read about the Names Austria has chosen for their assigned System.
The Votes are over and and on the site the results can be seen.
Several systems and one exoplanet in this system got new "public" names.
Especially for the E Anniversary an update with the new "public" names would be fine.
The page has also the star identity of a known star catalog listet and several testet systems can be found in E with their catalog ID.

o7,
poisoner

 

[andrewg_oz]

The final list has been annouced:

Approved names | NameExoworlds

www.nameexoworlds.iau.org

 

[GroG79]

I do hope Frontier implements these named exoplanets

Sadly no reply

 

[BinakAlgo]

I do hope Frontier implements these named exoplanets

Sadly no reply

I just found about this and I was to post something about it. Alas, maybe is too much work for FD right now? Also, I think those systems are not in the Elite Galaxy or have other names from other catalogs. But it would be nice to have some variety and identify system HD 224693 from HD 98219, so you don't end up like a dumbass believing they were the same.

 

[GroG79]

Some systems have two (or even three) names. Actually you can find some that have two names in Elite (just not visual but when you search it shows one of the names)

The list of named exo planets show many names that are not found in ED. I had to search and find the secondary name to be able to tag the gas giant in several cases.