Jinren
Since: Oct, 2010
Oct 15th 2013 at 3:36:46 PM
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Stars and planets seem to be numbered in the same system with capital letters for stars and lowercase for planets, with "A" always going to the brightest object (which will by definition always be the star); only necessary to specify the "A" if there's more than one star though.
94.9.139.139
Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 2nd 2010 at 6:24:57 PM
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Uh,
Real Life
- If we ever find intelligent alien life, chances are high it will come from a star with one of these numbers, and it is certain that its planet will only have a letter at first. For example, Gliese 581-d and OGLE-2005-CLG-390L-b are two planets that may have Earth-like conditions conducive to life.
Does this even count when, you know, we have no access to that planet?
94.9.139.139
Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 2nd 2010 at 6:03:36 PM
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I deleted Coruscant as being an example of the trope, partly because of an ungodly amount of natter, but also because the "triple zero" seems to refer to the sector's location in space, not the actual planetary designation.
Just to ask, would the first planet in a binary system be named [Star-Classification] c? If not, then why do they skip "a"?
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