User blog:NuclearVacuum/I'm the Venetia Burney of exoplanets

I have been part of the Extrasolar Visions forum form the start of my exoplanet fascination (since 2004), and within those five years, I have never been so surprised to see my username in a topic.

Now that I got you all in the mood, let me explain. Since 2004, I have been working on naming extrasolar planets. Currently the planets have designation names and not "name names." What got me started was that two planets have been given nicknames since their discovery. Planet 51 Pegasi b was nicknamed Bellerophon, and planet HD 209458 b was nicknamed Osiris. Since I found this out, I made some proposed names for several exoplanets. For instance, my favorite exoplanet is Iota Horologii b, which I have given the nickname Chronos, or Cronus in Lyra's words.

So to get to the point, after five years of work, astronomer Wladimir Lyra (who also works towards naming exoplanets), recently wrote a report about naming exoplanets. In his essay, he references me and my work in many ways. He agreed with me on several parts, and disagreed with me on others. I have never been mentioned in anything like this before. I have told my family about it and they are all shocked and proud of me.