Take a look here at the current quest to find out a new name for the exoplanet WASP-13b.
Our school community may be very interested to put their ideas forward before October 18th, as each year we have a group of year 12 students that work with scientists from UCL researching exoplanets and their atmospheres in the ORBYTS group – Original Research By Young Twinkle Scientists. Last year we studied WASP-122b finding out a great deal of information about it from transit data, including that it’s atmosphere was similar to that of Jupiter. Though it certainly didn’t have a very snappy name either…
Do send your ideas in to rename WASP-13b – what an opportunity!