• The exoplanet naming convention is an extension of the system used for naming multiple-star systems as adopted by the International Astronomical Union...
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    while the planet Fomalhaut b was named Dagon (after Dagon, an ancient Syrian “fish god”). Exoplanet naming convention assigns uncapitalized letters starting...
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  • System Planetary nomenclature, for features on those planets Exoplanet naming convention, for planets outside the Solar System Minor-planet designation...
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    exoplanets List of proper names of exoplanets List of largest exoplanets List of smallest exoplanets List of transiting exoplanets List of exoplanets...
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    J1407b (section Name origin)
    Centauri as an exoplanet. The name J1407b follows the exoplanet naming convention by adding the letter "b" after the host star's name. At the time of...
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    the star TrES-1 and the planet TrES-1b, following the standard exoplanet naming convention. Since the planet transits the star, the star is classified as...
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  • lower-case letter such as b, c, or d, may be exoplanets (see Exoplanet naming convention). Some exoplanets, especially those detected by radial velocity...
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    OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb (category Exoplanets discovered in 2005)
    OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb (known sometimes as Hoth by NASA) is a super-Earth ice exoplanet orbiting OGLE-2005-BLG-390L, a star 21,500 ± 3,300 light-years (6,600 ± 1...
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    Fabo; Tuomi, Mikko; Jones, Hugh R. A. (2018). "Minimizing the bias in exoplanet detection – application to radial velocities of LHS 1140". arXiv:1807...
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    U. (2010). "On the naming convention used for multiple star systems and extrasolar planets". arXiv:1012.0707 [astro-ph.SR]. NameExoWorlds: An IAU Worldwide...
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    2M1207B) might be classified as a binary together with 2M1207A and not an exoplanet. This would make the disk around 2M1207b a circumstellar disk, despite...
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    HIP 65426 b (category Exoplanets with proper names)
    designation inherited from the host star's name, HIP 65426, following the exoplanet naming convention, where exoplanets receive lowercase letters. The designation...
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  • Telescope. The names were announced in June 2023. Astronomical naming conventions IAU Working Group on Star Names List of proper names of exoplanets List of...
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    In astronomy, a disrupted planet is a planet or exoplanet or, perhaps on a somewhat smaller scale, a planetary-mass object, planetesimal, moon, exomoon...
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    U. (2010). "On the naming convention used for multiple star systems and extrasolar planets". arXiv:1012.0707 [astro-ph.SR]. NameExoWorlds: An IAU Worldwide...
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  • 82 G. Eridani d (category Exoplanets detected by radial velocity)
    planets of 82 G. Eridani are named with lowercase letters in order of discovery, following the exoplanet naming convention. However, designations are inconsistent...
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    Kepler-1649c (category Exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope)
    Kepler-1649c is an Earth-sized exoplanet, likely rocky, orbiting within the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Kepler-1649, the outermost planet of...
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  • The following is a list of exoplanet search projects. EXCEDE FINESSE Origins HabEx LUVOIR New Worlds Mission PEGASE Darwin EChO Eddington Space Interferometry...
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    OGLE-2007-BLG-349Lb (category Exoplanet stubs)
    planet "c", as their solution to "an apparent inconsistency" in exoplanet naming convention. Other sources, such as the SIMBAD Astronomical Database and...
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    disks Accretion disk Circumstellar envelope Disrupted planet Exoasteroid Exoplanet Formation and evolution of the Solar System Peter Pan disk Tabby's Star...
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    Kepler-1647b (category Exoplanets discovered in 2016)
    Kepler-1647b (sometimes named Kepler-1647(AB)b to distinguish it from the secondary component) is a circumbinary exoplanet that orbits the binary star...
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    system with that technique. Ballard took part in the discovery of four exoplanets (early numbered) in the Kepler spacecraft mission prior to its finding...
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    "Bellerophon" /bɛˈlɛrəfɒn/ by astronomer Geoffrey Marcy, who followed the convention of naming planets after Greek and Roman mythological figures (Bellerophon is...
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  • OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb (category Exoplanets detected by microlensing)
    OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb is an extremely massive exoplanet, with a mass about 13.4 times that of Jupiter (MJ), or is, possibly, a low mass brown dwarf, orbiting...
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    51 Eridani b (category Exoplanets discovered in 2014)
    Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology. 51 Eridani b is the first exoplanet discovered by the Gemini Planet Imager. The Gemini Planet Imager was specifically...
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    An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System. The first confirmed detection of an exoplanet was in 1992 around a pulsar, and...
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    B1257+12 C, alternatively designated PSR B1257+12 d and also named Phobetor, is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting the pulsar Lich approximately 2,315 light-years...
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  • HIP 116454 b (category Exoplanet stubs)
    HIP 116454 b, or K2-2 b, is an exoplanet orbiting the star HIP 116454, 62 parsecs (201 ly) from Earth toward the constellation Pisces. It is 32,000 kilometres...
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    GU Piscium b (category Exoplanets detected by direct imaging)
    Discovered Exoplanet Takes 80,000 Years to Orbit its Star". Sci-News.com. May 14, 2014. Brett Smith (May 14, 2014). "Finding An Exoplanet That Takes 80...
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    (or TrES-2A) and the planet TrES-2b, following the standard exoplanet naming convention. In keeping with the planet being component b, the companion...
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