Hi Warren,
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Originally Posted by supernova1965
Or "WHY THE BLOODY HELL DID I COME HERE" Bit long winded but you take what you get I suppose.  |
No, you're talking about a planet that's already been named -- it's called "NowWhat". You can read all about it in the Hitch Hiker's Gude to the Galaxy".
You can read about it here:
Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NowWhat#NowWhat
but the pertinent part extracted from Wiki:
NowWhat is a planet in the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash formerly known as the Hitchhiker's Guide universe. NowWhat can be found in place of planet Earth at an unlikely position along the probability axis, in a parallel universe.
According to the novel Mostly Harmless, "the planet of NowWhat had been named after the opening words of the first settlers to arrive there after struggling across light-years of space to reach the furthest unexplored outreaches of the Galaxy. The main town was called OhWell."
The only export of NowWhat is the NowWhattian boghog skin, which no one in their right minds would want to buy, and the export trade only manages to survive because of the significant number of people in the Galaxy who aren't.
The NowWhattian boghog is the only surviving native animal of NowWhat, all others having died of despair, and, failing to be completely inedible, is the primary source of food for the settlers on NowWhat. The language of the boghogs consists of biting each other very hard on the thigh and thus was never learned by anybody else.
Travelers that arrive on NowWhat are greeted by a picture of the president smiling a ghastly smile; the picture was taken after he shot himself, and the missing corner of his face has been drawn in crayon. No one wants to be the president of NowWhat. Everyone there pursues one ambition: to leave.
Arthur Dent arrives on NowWhat in search of Earth. After turning the map upside down and adjusting for different sea levels, he discovers that the shapes of the continents of NowWhat resemble those of the planet Earth. For lack of any other similarity Arthur Dent concludes that it is the right planet but the wrong universe and leaves again.
But more seriously, I thnk the convention they will go for in the end will be Roman numerals in the order of discovery. A, B & C. Aa Ba, Bc etc etc are used more commonly for stars in a multiple system. Then we can have something like Xi Scorpii B IV.
Common names ... don't get me started on common names for celestial objects planets or otherwise ...
Best,
Les D