Who Thought Asking The Internet To Name NASA’s Uranus Mission Was A Good Idea?

Asking the public to name things is a horrendous approximation . Just require any navy man who nearly served on thegood ship Boaty McBoatface . But here we are again ( albeit in a less official mental ability , perhaps they learned ) after an unofficial Twitter accounting appealed to the net to name a probe that will shortlyexplore Uranus .

The Uranus Orbiter and Probe is a project that NASA hope will be launched sometime in the early 2030s . The commission would spend several year orbitingUranus , maybe sending a probe down throughits atmosphereto thesurface . It could tell us a lot about the composition of the ice giant , which is why such an important mission ’s name should not be left to the public .

However , theIce Giant MissionsTwitter account ask its followers what the mission should be called .

With an official - looking post-horse persona , a number of people took the question to mean that NASA itself was asking the question , but no tincture of such a scheme is to be found on any official NASA sites , and given the delegation is not yet greenlit , it ’s unlikely that they ’d ask hoi polloi to come up with inevitable posterior caper just yet .

Some of thepublishable naming suggestion find have been portion out by Ice Giant Missions .

To be fair , some were quite creative and made good use of NASA ’s love of acronyms and backronyms : A.N.U.S ( Advanced New Uranus Space military mission ) , andR.E.C.T.U.M ( Research Education Charging Towards Uranus Mission ) for model .

Some were more obvious : Operation Butt Plug , Pegassus , Seymore Butts and Suppository . Proby McProbeface of course made an entrance on the tilt .

Thankfully for the poor Uranus investigation just begging to be take severely , there were real suggestion that are more befitting of the Uranus IE . Some of our favorites include Odin , who was the Norse divinity that led Asgard to defeat the Frost Giants , and Boreas , the Hellenic deity of the compass north flatus and bringer of wintertime .

If you really need to name an official space object something slaphappy , you’re able to enter toname one of the exoplanetsthat JWST will explore this year . Ca n’t wait to take on Exoplanet McExoplanetface .