I’ve been inspired by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope’s recent discovery of 7 new earth-sized planets within the habitable zone around one star. And what names did they give these beautiful babies of the Milky Way? An uninspiring: b, c, d, e, f, g, h – not even capitals!
But wait, it gets better. The star these planets are revolving around is named TRAPPIST-1 (short for Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope); but that name was created for commoners such as myself. It’s astronomical catalogue name is 2MASS J23062928-0502285. No wonder they ran out of imagination by the time they reached the planets.
Love the gif cartoons. Am impressed you can create them!
I would like to say they require great skill and expertise, but the reality is, is that all I needed to do was drag and drop 4 sequential images into an app and click go…Now you’re in the know, it doesn’t seem that glitzy anymore, eh?
Is still pretty cool. 😁
Great cartoon Marti – love it. I’m not sure I’ve got any brilliant ideas myself, but the Twitterverse came up with some corkers. Did you see this? http://technology.inquirer.net/59414/look-twitter-users-come-up-with-names-for-7-new-planets. My favourite suggestions are ‘FarfromTrump 1, 2, 3, etc’ or the Seven Horcruxes!
I had seen a bit of action around the announcement, but not the names. There are some corkers in there – personally I like the new earth and pluto (go the underdog!) ones
You are a genius in the making, Marti. Great imagination. As for the planets, why not just give them a bar code!
Oh yeah Seeker! Barcodes – why didn’t I think of that. I love it.