{"id":93532,"date":"2019-09-12T14:36:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T12:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=93532"},"modified":"2019-09-12T14:44:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T12:44:59","slug":"vote-for-the-name-for-the-polish-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/vote-for-the-name-for-the-polish-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote for the name for the Polish planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Only until the end of October 2019 Poles can vote for the name for the Polish planet in the competition of the International Astronomical Union (IAU).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The competition was organized on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the IAU. Each country can name one planet and one star. Poland received the gas giant BD + 14 4559 b, located in the constellation Pegasus, about 160 light-years from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>In June and July Internet users submitted over 2.8 thousand ideas. The jury then selected the best suggestions.<br \/>\nList of selected names (in order: star name, planet name):<br \/>\n\u2022 Geralt and Ciri &#8211; characters from the saga about the Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski.<br \/>\n\u2022 Jantar and Wolin &#8211; the former Polish term for amber, Wolin is a Polish island on the coast of the Baltic Sea.<br \/>\n\u2022 Piast and Lech &#8211; characters from legends about the beginnings of the Polish state.<br \/>\n\u2022 Polon and Radium &#8211; names of chemical elements discovered by Maria Curie-Sk\u0142odowska.<br \/>\n\u2022 Solaris and Pirx &#8211; novel title and character from Stanis\u0142aw Lem&#8217;s books.<br \/>\n\u2022 Swarog and Weles &#8211; deities from Slavic mythology.<br \/>\n\u2022 Twardowski and Boruta &#8211; characters from the legend of Twardowski.<br \/>\nVote on:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iau100.pl\/planety\/wybierz\">http:\/\/www.iau100.pl\/planety\/wybierz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only until the end of October 2019 Poles can vote for the name for the Polish planet in the competition of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). The competition was organized on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the IAU. Each country can name one planet and one star. Poland received the gas giant BD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}