From Technology Review:
The International Astronomical Union is refusing to name the exoplanets. That seems unnecessarily curmudgeonly.
Since 1995, astronomers have found more than 400 planets orbiting other stars. And yet not one of them has a formal name, other than their orginal scientific designation such as MOA-2008-BLG-310-L b, (a sub-Saturnian mass planet recently detected in the Galactic Bulge). How come?
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