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Offers updated alphabetical list of minor planet names.
Information about each planet and moon in our solar system with many pictures, discussion of the history of its discovery, exploration, ... Glossary of technical terms and proper names
Roman name for the goddess of love. This planet was considered to be the brightest and most beautiful planet or star in the heavens. ... Neptune, a blue planet, was named for the Roman god of the sea.
Many considered this the obvious favourite for naming the new planet, since Roman mythology has it that Pluto (or Hades, in Greek mythology) kidnapped Persephone, and made her his wife.
(see minor planet names), is the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the ninth largest body known to orbit the Sun directly.
Ceres (pronounced /ˈsɪəriːz/,[14] or as Latin: Cerēs), also designated 1 Ceres (see minor planet names), is the smallest identified dwarf planet in the Solar System and the only one in the ...
Planetary nomenclature, like terrestrial nomenclature, is used to uniquely identify a feature on the surface of a planet or satellite so that the feature can be easily located, ...
The list for GA XXVI in Prague in 2006 is available here. A merged, alphabetic list of all names is available at the Minor Planet Center, as is a list of discovery circumstances.
• Names should not be too similar to an existing name of a minor planet or natural planetary satellite
Book Description Until recently, minor planet name citations were scattered in the astronomical literature, and the origin of many names remained obscure.
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