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" A few months ago, the International Astronomical\u00A0Union opened up a public vote on the name of a handful of exoplanets. Today, those results were announced. World, meet planet Poltergeist.\u00A0 Sorry, maybe you once knew it as\u00A0PSR B1257+12 C, a hard to remember name around a distant pulsar. It was one of the first planets discovered, but it&amp;#039;s now got a name that rolls off the tongue a little easier than the name announced in 1992. It&amp;#039;s joined in its system by Phobetor and Draugr, similarly named for creepy spirits from beyond the grave, perhaps owing to their current placement around a long dead star. The\u00A0Planetarium S\u00FCdtirol Alto Adige in Italy chose the names, which won the public vote. In fact, organizations and observatories around the world all selected the planet names en masse. So while the pulsar-now-known-as-Lich got underworld names, a different system called 55 Cancri now is named for famous astronomers. So 55 Cancri is now Copernicus, while its planets are Galileo, Brahe, Lippershey, Janssen, and Harriot, names selected by the\u00A0Royal Netherlands Association for Meteorology and Astronomy. Another set of planets is named for a Thai myth about a crocodile king, while yet another is named for the works of Cervantes. There&amp;#039;s Fomalhaut b, now named after the fish god Dagon due to its placement in the Pisces constellation.\u00A0While many draw from mythology, literature, and history, some aren&amp;#039;t nearly as lofty. Like the new planet Orbitar. It&amp;#039;s named for ... orbiters, as NASA, ESA, and Roscosmos have sent out. Or there&amp;#039;s Musica, a star\u00A0named for the very concept of music, or Fortitudo, which as you can probably guess is named for Fortitude. You can see the complete list of names here. There may, of course, be future votes on such matters, especially for planets outside our solar system that don&amp;#039;t have lofty naming conventions. And let&amp;#039;s just hope to god we never have to name a planet after Jerry Garcia.\u00A0   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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