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Exoplanet Names, An xkcd Comic About the Public’s Name Suggestions For Planets and Moons

  • Kimber StreamsKimber Streams
  • August 19, 2013

Exoplanet Names

Following the news that the International Astronomical Union would begin allowing the public to suggest names for newly discovered exoplanets and moons, xkcd created “Exoplanet Names,” a comic that imagines what those suggestions might look like.

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