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Old 27-March-2005, 04:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Jpax2003
Why not just name the star and number the planets? Earth would be Sol-3 and Luna would be Sol-3.1
The only problem with that is, until we reach the technology level that allows for a full census of planets in any given system, we don't know which planets are what numbers. In the 55 Cancri system, I would have bet that we had found the first planet in that system already. And then came along the Neptune-sized world.....

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