Sky Matters: Ireland has the chance to name a star and a planet - any ideas?

We are all familiar with the names of the eight planets that orbit our sun (and poor old Pluto, which remains somewhat controversially re-classified as a dwarf planet).

Sky Matters: Ireland has the chance to name a star and a planet - any ideas?

We are all familiar with the names of the eight planets that orbit our sun (and poor old Pluto, which remains somewhat controversially re-classified as a dwarf planet).

Those names come from ancient Greek and Roman mythology.

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