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TFW you live in a galaxy-spanning super civilization but your planet is dying because its ID in the central database has a UUID collision with another planet 80000 light years away.
Well, the UUIDs for almost everything we use are galaxy-scale already. Astronomers just need to up those random letters a bit.
There are so many objects in the sky that you run out of normal names very quickly.
Jokes aside, I’m sure there is SOME method for how they name what they find; I highly doubt they just use a random number generator. Does anyone here know what that process is?
Cat walking across keyboards at the wrong time of a group chat
I’m not a scientist/astronomer but my beste guess would be that stuff is named based on the instrument/telescope that found it first and some number or based on survey project names. There are so many objects we discover, anything “more sophisticated” would probably be too much work. If something turns out interesting later it might get additional names or a nick name.
I discovered a new planet! Now I just need to think of a good name for it sets cat down on keyboard
After a few conversations it will be called HOGO
