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* In ''[[Ascendancy]]'', the player can name their colonies whatever they want, but the defaults are (Starname)(Roman numeral) (such as Hope II, Nougat IV, etc.)
* The ''[[Escape Velocity]]'' series features a number of these, usually assigned to uninhabited and/or inhospitable worlds. ''EV Nova'' often uses the format "UHP-####", where UHP stands for '''[[Fun with Acronyms|U]]'''[[Fun with Acronyms|nin]]'''[[Fun with Acronyms|h]]'''[[Fun with Acronyms|abited]] '''[[Fun with Acronyms|P]]'''[[Fun with Acronyms|lanet]].
** If a planet is settled later on, the name changes. UHP-1002 was renamed "Nirvana" after being [[
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== Comics ==
* In [[Legion of Super-Heroes]], the planet full of people who can ''eat anything'' is named after ''stomach medicine''
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* The dwarf planet of [[wikipedia:Eris (dwarf planet)|Eris]] was originally named [[Xena: Warrior Princess|Xena]] by the team that discovered it. Naturally, they also named its moon Gabrielle. When that was also rejected by the astronomical community,<ref>"Xena" and "Gabrielle" were temporary names used by the research team during the discovery and verification phases; they knew there wasn't a KBO's chance on Mercury the IAU would allow them to stay permanently.</ref>
* Another asteroid in the Main Belt is named [[wikipedia:12796 Kamenrider|12796]] [[Kamen Rider|Kamenrider]].
* Unlike the moons of the other planets (named for the associates of the gods in [[Classical Mythology]]), the moons of Uranus are named after characters (generally female) from the works of [[William Shakespeare]] and ''[[The Rape of the Lock]]''. It isn't quite popular culture (these works were already over 200 years old when the moons were named in the mid-19th century), but these works are hardly mythology, either. And one must admit, it is rather fitting that the moons of the planet discovered by an Englishman (or rather an Anglicized German, but who's counting?) be named after the great works of English literature.
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