Why nasa call the planets dumb names??
They name alot of planets after cars...like Saturns, Mercury. Then they name planets after Disney people like Pluto and venus. Then candy like mars bars and jupitor bars. Then they call a planet after a buthole...uranus lolo lol. Why is nasa so dumb?
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CarolOklaNola say: NASA does NOT name planets. Planets ha e the names of gods and goddesses. The IAU names planets now. NASA did not exist until February 1958.
Willful ignorance is a highly contagious mental illness. You should be quarantined and isolated.
YOU are ignorant, dumb AND stupid
A 7 year old named Pluto her uncle was a professional astronomer.
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ngc7331 say: I think you got it backwards. The planets had those name LONG before the invention of the internal combustion engine. The only exception is Pluto, first it technically isn't a planet anymore, but more importantly it was named for the Roman god of the Underworld AND the first two letters "P" & "L" are the initials of the founder of the observatory where Pluto was discovered, Percival Lowell.
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sparrow say: The cars were named after the Greek gods, just like the planets were.
The planets were not named after cars. That's silly.
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Gabe say: There is a far more dignified spelling and pronunciation of the seventh planet, Ouranos, 'Oh-RAH-nos', but for a variety of pissing contests and convoluted politics, it became what it is today.
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Jeffrey K say: Planets are all named after mythological gods from Greece and Rome.
NASA doesn't choose the names for the planets.
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say: they couldnt find u at the time
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Clive say: Grow up, idiot. NASA did not name them. They were named after ancient gods centuries ago. Why are you so dumb that you think NASA does everything?
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Bill-M say: NASA did not name the planets. The Greeks did 3000 years ago.
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tham153 say: troll or idiot?
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Ronald 7 say: Earth used to be called Jennifer
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Iridflare say: "Why nasa call the planets dumb names"
Asks the troll who named himself after a goat!
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CarolOklaNola say: NASA does NOT name planets. Planets ha e the names of gods and goddesses. The IAU names planets now. NASA did not exist until February 1958.
Willful ignorance is a highly contagious mental illness. You should be quarantined and isolated.
YOU are ignorant, dumb AND stupid
A 7 year old named Pluto her uncle was a professional astronomer.
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DoctorLemonmin say: I don't know. Why did your mom have such a dumb *** kid?
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WHANKING-WILLY say: Earth used to be called Frank.
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Funnelweb say: As stated NASA did not name the planets. The names of the Mercury, Venus, Mars Jupiter and Saturn were names given by the Romans, and we don't know exactly who chose them.
The person responsible for naming Uranus was a German called Johann Elert Bode. He should have named it Caelus after the Roman god who was father of Saturn and grandfather of Jupiter, not Uranus who was the Greek God who was father of Kronos and grandfather of Zeus. But in German the word anus is either "after" or "darmausgang", so we don't know if Bode realised that his name would make the seventh planet the butt of many jokes in English in the future. Herschel was the discoverer and he should have named it, but as he chose the name of the King of England at the time (George), international astronomers rejected the name.
There's nothing wrong with calling the eighth planet "Neptune", Roman god of the sea. The name was chosen by its discoverer, a French man named le Verrier.
Pluto is no longer considered a planet, and it is named after the Roman god of the underworld.
Three other objects had "stupid" names.
The dwarf planet Eris and its moon Dysnomia were originally named Xena and Gabrielle by their discoverers, but these were always nicknames until an official name was chosen. Eris is more massive than Pluto, though slightly smaller in diameter. So it is deserving of the same status as Pluto. Eris and Dysnomia were discovered by Caltech (California Institute of Technology) which has ties to NASA.
Another object was called Buffy. It is 550 km in diameter, and it isn't certain whether it meets the definition of a dwarf planet, so it never got an official name. Its number is 2004-XR190. It was discovered and nicknamed by astronomers in Hawaii. But unless it is given an official name, many will think of it as "Buffy".
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poldi2 say: Yes hon, you think whatever you like.
The planets were named HUNDREDS of years before Disney or cars or NASA.
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Robert say: NASA is a government organization and is subject to the politics of whoever is in congress and the white house at the time the planet was named. The car names came when conservatives in power. "Uranus" came when liberals were in power.
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someg say: E-mail NASA and ask them: nasa@hotmail.com
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PhotonX say:
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Colin say: All the planets, besides Earth, are named after Greek and Roman gods and goddesses. All the things you mentioned also used these names but after the planets had already been named.
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Egbert say: If you think NASA named the planets you are sadly mistaken.
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CarolOklaNola say: NASA does NOT name planets. Planets ha e the names of gods and goddesses. The IAU names planets now. NASA did not exist until February 1958.
Willful ignorance is a highly contagious mental illness. You should be quarantined and isolated.
YOU are ignorant, dumb AND stupid
A 7 year old named Pluto her uncle was a professional astronomer.
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Zardoz say: Which would you prefer, a car or a candy bar named after Uranus?
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Choose a bloody best answer. It's not hard. say: Yeah, yeah. If I say that's funny will you go away and leave us alone?
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Hindusufi say: NASA didn't come up with any of those names.
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