Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity,alt.atheism,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh Subject: Re: [OT] Name of the Solar System (was: Names.) Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:14:13 -0800 Organization: The Starmaker Organization Lines: 132 Message-ID: <6960AAC5.4F04@ix.netcom.com> References: <10jmelc$1b9iv$1@gwaiyur.mb-net.net> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2026 07:13:52 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0db4c1cb71bacfef56f9b0f427b33b1c"; logging-data="2253393"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+nTnup1ucXS9waaKxdGNeLAPAPcXLzJag=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:y7zA7g2GcgF2rJZd2wyGTyveptA= X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 260108-4, 01/08/2026), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:668125 alt.atheism:3476645 alt.fan.rush-limbaugh:3005401 Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > > cld wrote: > > Our solar system should have a name, to distinguish it from all the > > other solar systems. > > 1. You have posted to sci.physics.relativity. This is off-topic here. > You should have posted to . Next time, check > to determine the right newsgroup for > your question/discussion/problem. > > 2. Apropos names: Your postings will be more likely read if you post > under your real name. Statistically, single-named posters are more > likely to be trolls or lusers; those only posting under acronyms > doubly so. > > 3. It is required that the "From" header field of your posting contains > an e-mail address. "clowd@nimbus.net.inv" is not because there is no > top-level domain ".inv", but there could be in the future. See also > RFC 5536 "NetNews Article Format". > > 4. "Solar System" *is* the official name used by the International > Astronomical Union (IAU), and the preceding is the recommended > spelling. However, I grant you that since the (yet unfinished?) > redesign of the IAU Web site, it is even more difficult to find it > there.[1] > > There is only one Solar System because there is only one star called Sol, > Latin for English "the Sun" ("Sol" is derived from the Roman deity "Sol > Invictus", "the unconquered sun"[2]; "sun" developed from Old English > "sunne", cognate with similar words in other Germanic languages[3]), > which is the primary of that planetary system. Other planetary systems > ought NOT be called "solar systems". > > Use of the name "Sol" can also be found in astronomy software, for > example Celestia. For that reason I prefer the name "Sol System" that is > also found in good science-fiction. > > ____ > [1] > > [2] > [3] > > ยน Note that the term "star system" for such a system of celestial objects > around a star or multiple stars, that you often find in popular-scientific > and science-fiction contexts is wrong. The term "star system" exists in > astronomy, but means a system of two or more stars, not planets or smaller > bodies, orbiting each other. For example, the Alpha Centauri System is > correctly named so because it consists of the stars Alpha Centauri A > (Rigil Kentaurus), Alpha Centauri B (Toliman), and Alpha Centauri C > (Proxima Centauri): > -- > PointedEars > > Twitter: @PointedEars2 > Please do not cc me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail. That's ALL sound sooo confusing... all dis talk of sol, sun, Roman days... It was then when Caesar and Jesus Christ time... It's not the God of the Sun that the romans were worshipping...it was the Sun of God...the Sol of God...the Son of God. I understand how the confusion came about..but please get dis stuff right! dat star in the sky everyone was following is the sol. God is the Light. yous are mistaken the sun of god, or god of the son, it's the son of God! Yous speld Sonday wrong... then Monday. Sunday is God day. Solday. Sonday. Jesus is the Sun of God. Sunday is God day. Atheist Day is Hellday. Hell of a week if you ask me.. Fat ugly girls like to protest to pick up an ice guy. How do you spel Learing anyway? I see Trump wants to get rid of all the communists in the USA hemisphere.. dat explains why they killed JFK, he let those communists in our hemisphere. dat to me is punishable by death. -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.