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Can someone shed light on how names like 'GJ 486 b' are arrived at? Looks to me like something pulled out of a random number generator and piped through a base6
by penguin_booze 3y ago
Can someone shed light on how names like 'GJ 486 b' are arrived at? Looks to me like something pulled out of a random number generator and piped through a base64 encoder or something like that, but surely there's a method to the madness?
- arp242 3y agoGJ 486 or Gliese 486 is the 486th star from the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars. The letter "a" refers to the star, the letter "b" refers to the first exoplanet discovered, "c" to the second, etc.