(The planet is listed first, then the star.)

Snowdon and Ben Nevis: okay, mountains is a theme, but who's going to want a star named Ben?

Shaogal and Breagha: Scottish Gaelic, 'world' and 'beautiful'. Okay, but... they're just Gaelic words.

Delwyn and Ceridwen: Welsh, 'godly friend' and a Celtic goddess of rebirth. I actually like this one.

FInlaggan and Dunyvaig: A couple of ancient fortresses in Scotland. I guess that's okay?

Elan and Galloway: Dark Sky Parks. Nice theme, but the names are eh.

Cruinlagh and Gloas: naming them in Manx would amuse me immensely, but 'Cruinlagh' means 'orbit'; what would you name a second planet?

Dalla and Kann: Cornish is great, but this is even worse than the previous two: 'Kann Dalla' means 'bright beginning'.

Thistle and Poppy: I suspect this will get a lot of votes, but... I mean...

Hafal and Recorde: Robert Recorde is the man who invented the equals sign ('hafal' in Welsh'). That's adorable, but again... what's planet #2?

Bluestone and Sarsen: Rocks from Stonehenge. All two of them. I'm inclined to think this was suggested by someone who's read Alastair Reynolds' books about the planet Yellowstone.

We get to vote for three options, so... I guess I'll do that with the kids tonight?

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The Pitcairn Islands - population roughly 70 - decided to get involved. Their NameExoWorlds national committee makes up almost 10% of their total population (by which I mean, there's 5 of them). They have the smallest population in the world, but by golly, they're going to name a planet!

Liechtenstein, accursed nemesis of fanficWorld, are also involved. I hope their planet is exactly as hot and miserable as it looks. ;)

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I can’t seem to find out how to search for designated systems with the link. Where’s Singapore?

all documented Gatherings, including the interplanetary ones, have been intragalactic, by virtue of remaining within this galaxy. I'd be really excited to go if we ever got around to planning any intergalactic Gatherings though; I'm sure there's many interesting things to look at all the way over in Andromeda, or one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies if we want to go somewhere a bit closer to home. We might have to wait for them to locate some extragalactic planets first, though; all of the Bureau's current recommendations are fairly close to us, with the furthest, the 'zombie planets', a mere two thousand light years away.

I haven't even finished writing up the fourth Interplanetary Gathering yet! And now you're sending me interstellar?

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The geekiest named exoplanet is probably Hypatia, aka Iota Draconis b, and (obviously) named after a PPC resident. Of course it's nowt but a hot Jupiter; a better choice might be the four planets of Mu Arae, or rather, Cervantes and its worlds Dulcinea, Rocinante, Quijote, and Sancho. Quijote is a habitable-zone Jovian, so it could plausibly have habitable moons. Dulcinae might juuuust about be a rocky planet in its own right, though it's still about 10 Earth masses.

Or there's always the Bureau's favourite Zombie Star, because who doesn't want to stand on Poltergeist and look up at Draugr passing in front of Lich?

EDIT: Oh, or Dagon. Which isn't particularly geeky in and of itself, but does orbit around the Eye of Sauron.

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