Week 33, 2022: NameExoWorlds 2022 has been Announced!
On August 8, 2022 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its Office for Astronomy Outreach (OAO), the International Astronomical Union (IAU) is launching a contest to name 20 exoplanetary systems to be observed by JWST. The competition, NameExoWorlds 2022, was announced at a press conference at the XXXI IAU General Assembly, currently being held in Busan, South Korea. The contest seeks to bring together both professional astronomers and the wider public, giving them the opportunity to name the 20 selected exoplanets along with their host stars
For more information and if you're willing to participate, their registration form can be found on their Homepage here. Deadline of registrations will be until 2022-Nov-11 and the results of this campaign will be revealed to the public by March 2023
Source: International Astronomical Union (IAU)
List of ExoWorlds 2022
The following are the list of host stars/exoplanets involved in the 2022 edition. If there is a link embedded that means it has an addon available for download on Celestia (as of 2022-Aug-18):
- GJ 1214
- GJ 3470
- Gliese 367
- Gliese 436
- HAT-P-12
- HAT-P-26
- HATS-72
- HD 95086
- HIP 65426 (HD 116434)
- L 168-9 (GJ 4332)
- LHS 3844
- LTT 9779
- WASP-19
- WASP-43
- WASP-63
- WASP-69
- WASP-121
- WASP-166
- WD 0806-661
- Wolf 437 (Gliese 486)
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