Ep. 657: Astronomical Naming Schemes
Astronomy Cast
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The Trappist Planets - What Are They?
There are probably more planets in the say the 51 peg system than the one that we know of. But they're just too faint to see. And so do you shift everything if you find more? No, you just you find a closer one now with C and then it was not D and then one in between those two that'll be E. So it's really in the order that they're found. But if you can find a bunch at the same time, then you then you like the trappist planets and you put them all in a row nicely.
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