i’m YELLING have astronomers EVER been good at naming things?? - ThreadSky

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sevenrasmussen.com • 66 days ago

i’m YELLING have astronomers EVER been good at naming things??

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fpallopides.bsky.social•66 days ago

Moony McMoonface moment

jarron.bsky.social•66 days ago

Should have just gone with the Greek equivalents: Hermes, Aphrodite, Ares, Zeus, Kronos, etc. Would have been much less confusing!

mal-content.bsky.social•66 days ago

Id say Mike Brown if he didn’t give NDT something else to be an incorrect dick about.

vancemaverick.bsky.social•66 days ago

then when the moons of Saturn were discovered, he would have proposed "the Saturn of Jupiter of Saturn"

andersmelen.bsky.social•65 days ago

Best I can do is SKLQ2367.

gabeeggers.bsky.social•66 days ago

What the hell??

silvergoldsea.bsky.social•66 days ago

I think they did okay with some of the Kuiper Belt Objects & it’s nice that they’ve branched out beyond just white Western culture. Probably should’ve gone with an alternate spelling of Uranus though — every English pronunciation of that is awkward.

astroprofhoff.bsky.social•66 days ago

Haha, this is amazing

micropolyphonia.bsky.social•66 days ago

impressively bad idea, mr. marius

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