Naming convention for planets? What do you think?

Question

I know the planets in our own solar system are named in Greco-Roman fashion, with the Romans using their own names for the Greek gods as the names for planets. At least we know where they came from.
We also know that if we were to leave our own solar system eventually, we'd refer to our system as the Sol System. Some already refer to it as such.

If we were to take the time and trouble to travel to a different solar system(e.g. Alpha Centuari, 55 Cancri, Tau Ceti, Gliese 581 or 876), don't you think we'd start a different naming convention rather than continue to call them by their catalogue names? I mean, for all sakes and purposes their catalogue names are practical. But I think we'd actually give the star and its planets names because of the our more personal level of dealing with them.

What would we name these stars and planets? Would we use the names of gods from religions long past or would we create a different sort of naming convention?

Answer 1

I'd leave it up to the first person to step feet on the planet. But most likely it will be named by the person who financed the expedition.

Answer 2

We have already discovered planets around other stars and there is already a naming convention for them.



Planets are named the star they orbit followed by a letter designations. The sun itself is labelled a. If the system has multiple stars they are labelled b, c, etc. as necessary. Any planets discovered are named in subsequent letters based on the order in which they were discovered. For example, WASP-12b is the first discovered planet around WASP-12. A planet would be labelled "a" provided it orbits a non-star -- such as a pulsar.



There are just too many planets likely to be discovered to uniquely name. Most stars discovered now are named via numbers.

Answer 3

I don't think we would use the names of Gods. The reason civilizations past used the names of Gods was because they actually thought the objects in the sky were the gods. Now that we know what they really are, we would not use the names of Gods.

Answer 4

we are able to somewhat locate exoplanets themselves. maximum are basically discovered by employing stellar wobble of discern celeb or of eclipsing the discern celeb. The moons of reported planets are some distance previous our applications to discover. once you locate the 1st exomoon, you additionally could make up the catalog naming convention for them. thank you although for pointing out fifty 5 Cancri-f. i discover that goldilocks gasoline tremendous very exciting. basically so which you recognize, the f in fifty 5 Cancri-f does not recommend that it is the 5th planet from its discern celeb. The f means that it is the 5th planet discovered by employing human astronomers to exist in its planetary equipment. inspect the Gliese 581 equipment and you will see for specific of this, because of the fact Gliese 581-e is the closest planet to the discern celeb in that planetary equipment.