Writer's Block: It came from planet Claire

[sistawendy]

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I'd follow the guidelines of the International Astronomical Union: the name of the star followed by a lower case letter. If the planet is the nth one discovered around that star, the letter is the n+1st letter of the alphabet. The letter "a" is unused to eliminate confusion with the star itself. For example, Gliese 581 g.

Let's make it easy for people to search databases, shall we?

Comments

[bork.livejournal.com]

I love you and your math.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Aw. :)

[gement.livejournal.com]

I love you from the depths of my taxonomist's heart.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

*bats eyelashes*

[darkmane.livejournal.com]

Umm.. have you no poetry in your soul?

And full text searching needs to be turned on for your database and a field for IAU Name needs to be added to the table.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

There is no poetry in my soul, only techno, numbers, and porn.

You're not my PM. Go 'way.

[darkmane.livejournal.com]

No, I declare myself a user and insist you at least point me to your PM so I can scream at them until those become part of the pillars for your next release.

Imagine dancing to techno while coordinates, relative motions and spectral analyses' are projected onto the dancers. That is poetry too.

[ximinez]

I love how you just assumed it would be an exoplanet and ran with it. Of course, that is were all the discoveries are being made...