Exoplanet Names

August 2013: The Internation Astronomical Union decides to start naming exoplanets, and - for the first time ever - asks for suggestions from the general public. They immediately regret this decision. [[Four figures stand around looking at a computer screen. One is facepalming.]] Man: Can't you filter out the worst ones? Woman: This is *after* the filter! ((The list of suggestions is given as a table with three columns: "Star", "Planet", "Suggested Name". Here, the columns are given in a |-delimited form.)) Star | Planet | Suggested Name Gliese 667C | b | Space planet Gliese 667C | c | Pilf Gliese 667C | d | A star Gliese 667C | e | e'); DROP TABLE planets; -- Gliese 667C | f | Blogosphere Gliese 667C | g | Blogodrome Gliese 667C | h | Earth Tau Ceti | b | Sid Meier's Tau Ceti B Tau Ceti | c | Giant dog planet Tau Ceti | d | Tiny dog planet Tau Ceti | e | Phil plainet Tau Ceti | f | Unicode snowman Gliese 832 | b | Asshole Jupiter Gliese 581 | b | Waist-deep cats Gliese 581 | c | Planet #14 Gliese 581 | d | Ballderaan Gliese 581 | e | Eternia prime Gliese 581 | f | Taupe Mars Gliese 581 | g | Jelly-filled planet Epsilon Eridani | b | Skydot Epsilon Eridani | c | Laser noises Gliese 176 | b | Pandora Gliese 176 | c | Pantera Kepler-61 | b | Goldenpalace.com Upsilon Andromidae | c | Stampy Upsilon Andromidae | d | Moonchild Upsilon Andromidae | e | Ham sphere HD 20794 | b | Cosmic sands HD 20794 | c | Legoland HD 20794 | d | Planet with arms HD 85512 | b | Lax morality HD 40307 | b | Good planet HD 40307 | c | Problemland HD 40307 | d | Slickle HD 40307 | e | Spare parts HD 40307 | f | New Jersey VI HD 40307 | g | Hod do I join the IAU Gliese 163 | b | Neil Tyson's mustache Gliese 163 | c | help@gmail.com Gliese 163 | d | Hair-covered planet Pi Mensae | b | Moon holder HD 189733 | b | Permadeath Kepler-22 | b | Blue ivy Kepler-3284 | b | Blainsley Kepler-3255 | b | Unicorn thresher Kepler-2418 | b | Spherical Discworld Kepler-1686 | b | Emergency backup Earth Kepler-3010 | b | Feeeooooooooop Kepler-4742 | b | Liz {{Title text: If you have any ideas, I hear you can send them to iaupublic@iap.fr.}}

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