How do scientists come up with those cryptic names for newly discovered extrasolar planets?
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According to NASA's Planet Quest Atlas, most of the the extrasolar planets are labeled as the name of the star followed by 'b' for the first planet, 'c' for the second, etc.\n\nFor example:  The planet found around the star HD 102195 is called HD 102195 b.
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Uranus, the first planet discovered in modern times, was discovered by William Herschel while systematically searching the sky with his telescope on March 13, 1781. It had actually been seen many times before but ignored as simply another star (the earliest recorded sighting was in 1690 when John Flamsteed cataloged it as 34 Tauri). Herschel named it "the Georgium Sidus" (the Georgian Planet) in honor of his patron, the infamous (to Americans) King George III of England; others called it "Herschel". The name "Uranus" was first proposed by Bode in conformity with the other planetary names from classical mythology but didn't come into common use until 1850. \n\nGo to the site below.  It has all kinds of info, even on all of the moons.  I hope this helps :)
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There are actually several "planet like" objects beyond Pluto in an area called the Kuiper belt that contains thousands of objects that circle the sun.\n\nAt present none of them have been officially recognized as new planets. \nThe discovery of these new planet size objects including  2003 UB313 (nicknamed XENA), Sedna(in 2004) and Quaoar(in 2002 by the same team) have triggered a re-evaluation of the necessary criteria to call something a planet.\n\nIt is likely that this team at Caltech will  discover other objects to be added to the list of potential "planets" in our solar system.\n\n2003 UB313(nicknamed XENA unofficially) is larger than Pluto which leaves officials in a bit of dilemna.  How can they recognize Pluto as a planet and not this object?
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In 2003, Mike Brown of Caltech and other scientists (Trujillo and Rabinowitz) discovered another planet-sized body, larger than Pluto, far out beyond Pluto.  Following the convention for temporary names of newly discovered astronomical bodies, it was temporarily named 2003 UB313.  The astronomers who discovered it also used a 'code name' - Xena - among themselves.  But the official name will be decided the the International Astronomical Union, the organization that has the last word on such things.  \n\nXena is a pretty cool name, but there is no chance that it will be the final name.  There are no rules for naming astronomical objects, but since all the others are named for Greek and Roman gods, there's a good chance that this one will have a name from mythology, too.  The bad news is that all the good names have been taken (by planets, moons, asteroids, and other big rocks out there).  \n\nAnd some other potential bad news is that not only is the IAU going to name this thing, but it's going to decide if it even should be called a planet.  Since UB313 is bigger than Pluto, there's a chance that Pluto may also be downgraded - we may end up not with 10 plantets, but only 8 - going backwards!\n\nThe second web site, below, gives lots of great info about UB313, direct from the horses mouth, Mike Brown himself.  It's a well-written web site, written (mostly) in layman's language, and has lots of questions and answers about all kinds of things related to this discovery.  Check it out!
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It costs nothing to name a star, but there's a catch: you have to be the astronomer who discovers it!  However, I know you're thinking of those companies that say they'll name a star after you, for a fee.  What they do is simply publish a book containing all those stars that are named after their customers.  The books don't get wide circulation, and the names are not official, nor recognized by anyone except the company that produces it.  I'm sure those companies would let you name a star anything you want.  And you could go to different companies, and have the star given different names.  Or you could create a document on your computer, using a graphics program, naming the star...that would be about as "official," and recognized, as having some one else do it.\n\nCorrection: I thought you could name a star if you discovered it, but apparently, there are so many of them out there that they just get assigned numbers.  But you CAN discover, and name, your very own comet!  And all you need is a decent rich-field telescope or really good binoculars, and LOTS of time on your hands.
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by the name pluto and uranus\n\nummmm emailance i really don't think ur gonna get a story at the end
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July 29, 2005: "It's definitely bigger than Pluto." So says Dr. Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology who announced today the discovery of a new planet in the outer solar system.\n\nThe planet, which hasn't been officially named yet, was found by Brown and colleagues using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego. It is currently about 97 times farther from the sun than Earth, or 97 Astronomical Units (AU). For comparison, Pluto is 40 AU from the sun\nThe planet's temporary name is 2003 UB313. A permanent name has been proposed by the discoverers to the International Astronomical Union, and they are awaiting the decision of this body before announcing the name. \nAm I right U_EVERYONE_K
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Currently there are 182 known "exoplanets".  The large majority are Jupiter-sized or larger, and much closer to their Sun than the gas giants in our solar system are to our Sun.  Thus, the term "hot Jupiter" is used to describe these, big close exoplanets.\n\nWhile a variety of techniques exist to find exoplanets, the most common is looking for wobbles induced in the parent star by the planet's minor gravitational pull.  This technique means that we're biased towards finding planets which induce large wobbles in their parent star.  Large wobbles are produced by larger planets that are very close to their star...so the huge population of hot Jupiters we find is probably not representative of the true exoplanet distribution.
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(m)\n\nIn July 1995, two astronomers from the University of Geneva, Didier Queloz and Michael Mayor, found the first planet orbiting a normal star in the constellation of Pegasus by the spectroscopy method. The discovery of 51 Pegasus was confirmed by astronomers Geoff Marcy and Paul Butler of San Francisco State University. Marcy and Butler have since found numerous planets around other stars using the spectroscopy method. As of May 2000, we have found over 50 extrasolar planets. All of the planet-hunting methods tend to detect large planets -- about half the size of Jupiter to several times the size of Jupiter. These planets tend to orbit their parent stars within about 3 astronomical units (AU)\n\nSome of the extrasolar planets found.\nThe names of the planets are in the center of each row. The position of each planet in the row indicates its distance from its parent star in AU. The mass of the each planet is written to its right (MJ means "compared to the mass of Jupiter").
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Scientists not only say 'there might be', they say it really exists! And they've already named it (I don't remember it's name because it's kind of stupid..). Also they guess it used to be a moon of Neptune (as Pluto was). If I'd been these scientists who discovered the planet, I'd call it Bridget (because it's unreachable as I am.. lol)
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No one knows.\n\nScientists keep discovering large round things going around the sun (which is one definition of a planet).  Up until a few years ago, the pretty much accepted answer was 9:\n\n Mercury\n Venus\n Earth\n Mars\n Jupiter\n Saturn\n Uranus\n Neptune\n  and Pluto.\n\nBut in 2003 astronomers Mike Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David Rabinowitz discovered another planet-sized body, WAY out beyond Pluto.  The official name of this 'planet' for now is just 2003UB313, which is an astronomical code for keeping track of new objects.  The astronomers submitted the discovery to the International Astronomical Union (IAU).  The IAU will not only pick a name for this new body, but they will also determine if it will be officially called a planet.  \n\n Since UB313 is bigger than Pluto, there is actually a chance that, if the IAU decides UB313 is not a planet, then Pluto will not be called a planet either.  By discovering a new 'planet,' we may have decreased the number of planets in our solar system from 9 to 8!\n\n But that's not the end of the story.  Mike Brown and the gang keep discovering other big things out there that could possibly be called planets.  Their web site (see the link below) lists three other large objects they have found that might someday be called planets.\n\n And THAT's not the end of the story, either. That's just our solar system.  Scientists are discovering planets that go around other stars quite often.  The second web site below is NASA's place for information about these extrasolar planets. As of 15 June there were 193 of them!
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Ask those living in other planets!
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So, the basic idea with that star registry thing is you give them money and the send you a piece of paper.  They do write the name down somewhere, but it's not like it's the "official" name, or anything.  Astronomers are going to keep on using the name they're using, and it's not going to make it onto any star charts or such.  Basically, it's a total rip-off.
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Don't forget the tenth planet "Xena"\n\nSome info on the planets:\n\nhttp://beaker.atspace.org/spaceglossplanets.htm
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Often many people get involved in discovering a "planet" as several observations are required to verify and calculate the orbit.  Exactly what a planet is is subject to debate as even Pluto is not completely accepted as one.  The debate includes the question "how big does a rock have to be for us to call it a planet as opposed to an asteroid?"  Planet X was one possibility that seemed to just fade out of the news.  "Buffy" is the nickname of the latest "unusual" object out there (see my source article).  Heheheh, yes, "Xena" came public a few days before "Buffy."  Both are among the many rocks in the Kuiper Belt, including Pluto.  NASA's launching a probe called "New Horizons" to check out Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.
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i don't know anything about this book or author.  it is bogus so forget it.\n\nthere is one star (sun), eight planets (mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, uranus, and neptune), hundreds of dwarf, ball-shaped bodies ("1 ceres", "134340 pluto", and "136199 eris" for example), and tens of thousands small irregularly-shaped bodies in the solar system, and there is no hint of another star or any more planets.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrasolar_planet\nhttp://exoplanet.eu/catalog.php\n\nin 2006,  astronomers found evidence for a planet orbiting a star 21,500 ± 3,300 away.  the star is cataloged as OGLE-2005-BGL-390L.  the planet, OGLE-2005-BGL-390Lb, is 5.5 earth masses, but astronomers have also found more than 200 others.
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Not yet. They are still arguing about it. They may decide to call these new objects planets, or they may demote Pluto to a KBO, or they may just keep arguing.