2007-10-31 08:54:46 · 13 answers · asked by fresh2 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I think we should stick with whatever the inhabitants of the Gliese 581 system call it -- including renaming the star according to whatever they call their star.
I wonder what they call our own Sun... probably something like Pdlrjoea't A498.
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2007-10-31 10:06:57 · answer #1 · answered by tlbs101 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2007-10-31 19:52:40 · answer #2 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well the name Ceres is already taken. The first asteroid discovered, and the largest, is called Ceres.
I wouldn't bother naming Gliese 581c. It is most likely not a nice place and anyway it is too far away to even see.
2007-10-31 16:25:07 · answer #3 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not earth-like. Spectroscopic measurements of the system indicate that it MAY have a surface temperature range which MAY be amenable to liquid water existing there IF there is any water there at all, and hence MAY be suitable for life to exist. It is bigger and more massive than Earth and orbits much closer to a small red star than the Earth orbits the Sun. That's a long way from being 'Earth-like'. That description simply came about because some overenthusiastic and shockingly ignorant reporters don't actually understand what the science actually means, so they make the incredible leap from possibly having liquid water to being like Earth. Europa possibly has liquid water. It still isn't terribly Earth-like.
2007-10-31 16:57:15 · answer #4 · answered by Jason T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gliese 581c. You will run out of names a lot sooner than the universe will run out of observable planets.
2007-10-31 16:28:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ceres, after the Goddess of the Earth, as so many other planets are named after roman gods....
or proserpine, goddess of the underworld, depending just how like earth it is....
2007-10-31 16:21:51 · answer #6 · answered by Kit Fang 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bob. Just kidding. Gallefrey. Does it show I'm a Doctor Who fan?
2007-11-01 07:32:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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I would name it Earth 2, because that was the best name some writers could come up with for that failed TV show; and we all know TV writers are geniuses.
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2007-10-31 16:29:24 · answer #8 · answered by Dan 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
gliese 581C
C for short
actually it is known as Ymir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581_c
2007-10-31 16:11:41 · answer #9 · answered by Mercury 2010 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jerry, to encourage informality.
2007-10-31 17:21:30 · answer #10 · answered by Eratosthenes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋