--- title: Planet 9: What Would You Name the New Planet? description: Goodbye, Pluto. Hello, .... canonical: https://time.com/4186763/new-planet-9-discovery-pluto-poll/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-20T16:38:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T14:17:01.547Z article:section: Science og:title: What Would You Name the New 'Planet 9'? og:description: Goodbye, Pluto. Hello, .... og:url: https://time.com/4186763/new-planet-9-discovery-pluto-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: What Would You Name the New 'Planet 9'? twitter:description: Goodbye, Pluto. Hello, .... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # What Would You Name the New 'Planet 9'? by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jan 20, 2016 4:38 PM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jan 20, 2016 4:38 PM UTC Pluto may [finally have a replacement](http://time.com/4184942/planet-9-new-pluto-solar-system/): a newly-discovered planet researchers believe they’ve found in the far reaches of our solar system. But this celestial find, dubbed “Planet 9,” is still missing something very important: a real name. The researchers who spotted the planet would like to see it called “George” after King George III, in a nod to a British astronomer who discovered Uranus and had [hoped to name it Georgium Sidus (the Georgian Planet)](http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/11apr%5Fgeorge/). However, it’s unclear that the public would embrace “George,” which lacks the whimsy of our original ninth planet. (Pluto was [named by an 11-year-old girl](https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/transcript%5Fpluto%5Fnaming%5Fpodcast.html).) Here are some planetary suggestions; let us know what you think, or leave your own idea in the comments below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4186763/new-planet-9-discovery-pluto-poll/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4186763/new-planet-9-discovery-pluto-poll/"},"headline":"What Would You Name the New 'Planet 9'?","datePublished":"2016-01-20T16:38:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:17:01.547Z","description":"Goodbye, Pluto. Hello, ....","url":"https://time.com/4186763/new-planet-9-discovery-pluto-poll/","keywords":["Space"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4186763/new-planet-9-discovery-pluto-poll/","name":"What Would You Name the New 'Planet 9'?"}}]}] ```