How Do Planets Get Their Names? We Asked a NASA Expert

How Do Plan­ets Get Their Names? We Asked a NASA Expert

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How do plan­ets get their names? With the excep­tion of Earth, the plan­ets in our solar sys­tem were named after Greek or Roman gods. Today, the job of nam­ing things in space falls to the Inter­na­tion­al Astro­nom­i­cal Union (IAU), the inter­na­tion­al­ly rec­og­nized author­i­ty for nam­ing celes­tial bod­ies and their sur­face fea­tures. NASA sci­en­tist Dr. Hen­ry Throop explains more.

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Pro­duc­ers: Jes­si­ca Wilde, Scott Bednar
Edi­tor: David Shelton

Cred­it: NASA



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