#1 Rebecca Charbonneau - Astrohistory, Carl Sagan, Cold War SETI
Cool Worlds Podcast
The Problem With Naming Discovery After Yourself or Someone You Love
I've seen that happen with exoplanets when someone has named a planet. And I guess the problem there is you lose objectivity. It's very difficult if you name something after your wife or your child. My daughter Rosie always wants me to name the next planet I find after her. But obviously with, with a lot of us are now trying to avoid actually saying James Webb and just call it a team where maybe even kind of the just wonderful space house or something.
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